Re: Installing Grub on new squeeze vm failed

2011-10-02 Thread Robert Millan
2011/10/2 David Watson : > But I couldn't manually boot into the system? I've never experienced grub > rescue mode, but apparently commands like "help", "boot", etc. all return > with the message "Unknown command"! I don't think that will work. Rescue mode is for debugging mostly. -- Robert M

Re: Installing Grub on new squeeze vm failed

2011-10-02 Thread David Watson
and cd1); I'm going to try with 6.0.0.0. --Original Message-- From: Robert Millan Sender: rmh.ayba...@gmail.com To: David H. Watson Cc: Mailing List - Debian GNU/*BSD Subject: Re: Installing Grub on new squeeze vm failed Sent: 2 Oct 2011 07:00 2011/10/2 David Watson : > That didn't

Re: Installing Grub on new squeeze vm failed

2011-10-02 Thread Robert Millan
2011/10/2 David Watson : > That didn't work! I was able to finish the installation, but upon reboot, > grub reports "error: couldn't find boot", and has entered rescue mode. How > can I manually boot into my system? I can try installing grub again and > updating it. Yes, grub-install is what I'

Re: Installing Grub on new squeeze vm failed

2011-10-02 Thread David Watson
Robert Millan Sender: rmh.ayba...@gmail.com To: David H. Watson Cc: Mailing List - Debian GNU/*BSD Subject: Re: Installing Grub on new squeeze vm failed Sent: 2 Oct 2011 06:37 2011/10/2 David Watson : > Did that, and it worked ok; it generated grub.cfg and found both the kernel > and module

Re: Installing Grub on new squeeze vm failed

2011-10-02 Thread Robert Millan
2011/10/2 David Watson : > Did that, and it worked ok; it generated grub.cfg and found both the kernel > and module directory. So can I safely "Continue without boot loader" - skip > to the next step in the installation? Yes, but I wonder what happened before when it failed. Maybe it's missing

Re: Installing Grub on new squeeze vm failed

2011-10-02 Thread David Watson
Watson Cc: Mailing List - Debian GNU/*BSD Subject: Re: Installing Grub on new squeeze vm failed Sent: 2 Oct 2011 05:42 2011/10/2 David Watson : > Oct 2 04:44:36 /bin/in-target: warning: /target/etc/mtab won't be updated > since it is a symlink > Oct 2 04:44:40 grub-installer: err

Re: Installing Grub on new squeeze vm failed

2011-10-02 Thread Robert Millan
2011/10/2 David Watson : > Oct 2 04:44:36 /bin/in-target: warning: /target/etc/mtab won't be updated > since it is a symlink > Oct 2 04:44:40 grub-installer: error: Running 'update-grub' failed Could you open a terminal and run update-grub manually? From the /target hierrachy, e.g. $ chroot /tar

Installing Grub on new squeeze vm failed

2011-10-01 Thread David Watson
Hi I'm trying to install squeeze in a virtual machine (using VirtualBox on a Windows host with 2GB ram dedicated to vm), and I'm having problems installing Grub. I'm using kFreeBSD 6.0.2.1 (amd64_cd1) iso image. I have 2 vdis, configured as: ad4s1 - UFS, 17.5GB, '/' ad4s2 - SWAP, 4GB ad6s1 - UFS,