Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 08 December 2006 17:57, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > >>> Grub fails to install on AMD64, when I check the virtual console the >>> command given is: apt-install grub >>> >> That command is valid, but if it fails, the installation process will >> fail(stop) unless the command is ran something like "apt-install grub >> || true" which should queue the installation of the grub package in the >> target. >> > > That is not completely correct. Whether installation is queued or not > depends on the question if apt has already been configured or not > in /target, not on the presence of "|| true"". By the time grub-installer > is run, apt should _always_ be configured in /target and able to install > packages. > > In short, we need to find out _why_ grub failed here. > > Bob: Could you try to reproduce the error? > It would help very much if you could activate a trace for the script that > is run during installation by uncommenting the "set -x" near the top > of /usr/bin/grub-installer (after switching to VT2, using nano as > editor). You can do that for example during partitioning. > > Cheers, > FJP > > > Hello to all.
Don't know if that's the case but I had to patch asmstub.c to include mman.h and use MMAP (MAP_32BIT) to make it install and work under AMD64. Luca
