On 29/12/11 01:42, Thomas H. wrote:
it should use
grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/da6"
is there a way to run grub-install manually from a 2nd console during
the installation, or any other way to get grub2 installed on /dev/da6?
Hi Thomas,
If you Alt-F2/F3 into a spare console, I imagine you can do:
chroot /target /bin/bash
and then run the grub-install command manually.
You should then Alt-F1 back into the installer menu and say 'Continue
without a bootloader' as there are some other things it does before it
finishes.
thanks steven. the chrooting worked, but ultimatively resulted in a
non-bootable system when doing update-grub and grub-install.
i retried the installation, this time not allowing debian-installer to
install grub in the MBR but rather setting the target to /dev/da6. this
resulted in the following errors:
grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/da6'
grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy
--force "/dev/da6"
grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-stup: warn:
grub-installer: Your core.img is unusually large. It won't fit in the
embedding area.
grub-installer: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed
in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE
and their use is discouraged.
grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error:
grub-installer: cannot read '/grub/core.img' correctly
grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy --force
"/dev/da6"' failed.
i guess the disk partition layout is broken and will redo them now
before giving it another try (i had to do the partitions in gparted as
d-i failed partitioning the drive before...). some a grub bug-report
comment [0] suggest that there should be at least 1M+ gap before the
first partition when using MBR or have a dedicated 1M+ grub bios
partition under GPT - which my drive currently hasn't.
BTW, were you installing the Squeeze release (kfreebsd-8)? Or one of
the Wheezy testing images (kfreebsd-9) from:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
i used the squeeze release 6.0.3 kfreebsd-adm64 squeeze dvd release.
i'll give the wheezy image a try if it still fails after repartitioning.
another idea i had was to first try a normal amd64 debian to hopefully
get grub2 installed correctly...
regards,
thomas
[0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24103#comment76579
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