On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:05:58 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> 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. Mmm, SDG does not works for you? That's weird :-? What I made was downloading the ISO image from SDG site and configured Virtualbox squeeze vm machine to boot from there. That way GRUB installed just fine. >> 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?? Well, I think you can always install squeeze without a bootloader and install it later (from SDG or from squeeze itself). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.09.15.16.22...@gmail.com
