Re: Squeeze. Failed to install bootloader in VirtualBox
On Wednesday 15 September 2010 08:05:58 Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:32:19 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> >> Here is a try to install Squeeze into Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.6. Virtual
> >> drive is 8.0 GB persistent, RAM 768 Mb, a virtual drive was partitioned
> >> by Squeeze installer with default settings (/, swap; ext3). Everything
> >> is fine, except for bootloader. There is a failure during GRUB (GRUB2,
> >> lilo) installation process: "GRUB installation failed. The 'grub-pc'
> >> package failed to install into /target/."
> >>
> >> Also tried to partition a virtual hdd before Squeeze installation. No
> >> effect, bootloader installation failed also.
> >>
> >> Please, help to install a bootloader.
> >
> > I also had problems for installing GRUB (legacy) into VM using d-i
> > (squeeze). I had to use SuperGrubDisk and proceed from there.
>
> Thanks for an idea. Tried both SGD and Debian Squeeze weekly build
> DVD-1 'Rescue Mode' with no success: apt-get reported there are no
> such files on the media. Actually they are in a proper place and
> sources.list is in order and contains that DVD as a valid repository.
>
> > Indeed, installing GRUB in lenny was also problematic, IIRC. The first
> > time always failed (red screen with error message: "GRUB installation
> > failed"), and had to retry to get it properly installed :-?
>
> Yes, I confirm that. Another way to won was to pre-partition a target
> drive by LiveCD before an actual install.
>
> Have no clue on next step anyway. Tried Squeeze netinstall image on
> the same VirtualBox, it is not booting even.
> How to install Squeeze??
> --
>
> Sincerely Yours'
> Mark Goldshtein
I have had the same error in using Vbox & Squeeze. Since my goal was to have a
single os vm I just installed lilo instead. Lilo was given as a choice when I
said no to installing grub.
--
Peace,
Greg
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