Just tried to install Bass on a new hard drive. Gparted made me make (If I remember what Gparted called it..) a partition table before it would format the hard drive. Did that, made an ext4 partition and a swap.
Installed Bass, it gets to the end of the installation and tries to install grub. Grub exits with an error, says to see /var/log/bbqinstaller_error.log. When I check that, I see three /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup lines. First line says "Warning Filesystem 'ext2' doesn't support embedding." Second line "Warning. Embedding is not possible. Grub can only b$." The dollar sign is all that shows on the end of that line. Third line "error. Will not proceed with blocklist."
I just made the whole hard drive sda1, and swap sda2, and that's all I have. Don't know if the problem is with me or the installer. Tried it three times, same result each time.
Grub won't install in Bass[solved]
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Grub won't install in Bass[solved]
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Re: Grub won't install in Bass
So you set up a drive:
/dev/sda1 is /
/dev/sda2 is /swap (and we don't care about it now, because the installer asks for a swap FILE, not for a swap partition)
You start the installer
you enter /dev/sda "where to place the grub"
ignore the question about /home
you enter /dev/sda1 "where to install the system to"
ignore all other questions
Then confirm the installation
Have a try, it does work. I am sure you try to build the swapfile into /dev/sda2, and this is not what it is meant to be. We mount the /swap partition later, manually, in your system's /etc/fstab.
/dev/sda1 is /
/dev/sda2 is /swap (and we don't care about it now, because the installer asks for a swap FILE, not for a swap partition)
You start the installer
you enter /dev/sda "where to place the grub"
ignore the question about /home
you enter /dev/sda1 "where to install the system to"
ignore all other questions
Then confirm the installation
Have a try, it does work. I am sure you try to build the swapfile into /dev/sda2, and this is not what it is meant to be. We mount the /swap partition later, manually, in your system's /etc/fstab.
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Re: Grub won't install in Bass
Nope, just installed it again as you said and it exited with the same error on grub. The first time I installed, I'd spaced out even needing a swap file, thought maybe that's why it was throwing the error. I don't think I ever specified where the swap partition was, although you're right about it saying file and not partition. The only other things I selected were to use the UUIwhatever file thingy and no encryption.
Re: Grub won't install in Bass
That`s usually the error message I get when I install grub to partition instead of the mbr of the disk.
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Re: Grub won't install in Bass
Right.
/dev/sda <- drive (used for mbr/grub)
/dev/sda1 <- partition (used for OS)
/dev/sdb <- probably the media you boot from
Can you verify that /dev/sda is indeed the drive you want to install to?
The installer asks you to "show what drives are detected" right at the start.
You can also just issue "sudo blkid -o list" or "sudo fdisk -l" from command line.
On a side note: if you wait a few days, you get an upgraded Bass base to start with. Probably around Wednesday it should be up.
/dev/sda <- drive (used for mbr/grub)
/dev/sda1 <- partition (used for OS)
/dev/sdb <- probably the media you boot from
Can you verify that /dev/sda is indeed the drive you want to install to?
The installer asks you to "show what drives are detected" right at the start.
You can also just issue "sudo blkid -o list" or "sudo fdisk -l" from command line.
On a side note: if you wait a few days, you get an upgraded Bass base to start with. Probably around Wednesday it should be up.
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Re: Grub won't install in Bass
Thanks for the heads-up, I'll probably just wait. And yeah, I keep giving it /dev/sda to install to, so that's probably what's happening.
Just dug out a Bloat cd. I'll play with it and see what hapens.
EDIT> Just installed Bloat, no problem. Took about 15 minutes, doing DU now. I forgot that Bloat has a GUI installer, and when it tried to find any partitions, the hard drive was blank again; don't know how that happened, as I'd made the partitions before redoing the install. Fixed it with Gparted on Bloat, and it was off to the races.
Solved. Thanks.
Just dug out a Bloat cd. I'll play with it and see what hapens.
EDIT> Just installed Bloat, no problem. Took about 15 minutes, doing DU now. I forgot that Bloat has a GUI installer, and when it tried to find any partitions, the hard drive was blank again; don't know how that happened, as I'd made the partitions before redoing the install. Fixed it with Gparted on Bloat, and it was off to the races.
Solved. Thanks.