[arch-releng] new testbuilds

Sven-Hendrik Haase sh at lutzhaase.com
Sun Dec 19 20:21:53 EST 2010


On 19.12.2010 19:20, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:31:54 +0100
> Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com> wrote:
>
>> After a short and fairly standard test with netinstall-dual in a
>> virtualbox, trying to install x86_64 I was presented with a "OPERATING
>> SYSTEM MISSING" message. Apparently grub hasn't been installed? I set
>> up /boot (ext2) and / (ext4) as well as swap. I installed base and
>> base-devel and left the rest of the configuration fairly untouched.
>>
>> I don't have time to investigate further. This was just a heads-up.
>>
>> -- Sven-Hendrik
> Thanks for the feedback, though this is virtually useless to me if I
> don't know whether you performed the grub installation and whether it
> said something like 'grub installed' or 'grub install failed'.
> and do you get this error when booting the installed system (without
> the iso being loaded in the virtual cd drive?)
>
> Dieter
>
Well grub said it was installed successfully. I now did it again and
selected the first entry which actually worked and the system booted. I
also don't think the selection is supposed to look like this:
http://i.imgur.com/G8BJ4.png

Probably a bug. Or I just can't make sense from that selection.


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