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timrichardson

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Registered: 2013-02-12

Posts: 10

[solved] grub install fails /boot/grub is not readable

virtualbox install
single partition install (well, I have two partitions, #2 is / and #1 is the BIOS partition as defined in the install docs)
when I get to the stage of installing grub, I use :

grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda

which fails with
Path '/boot/grub' is not readable by GRUB on boot. Installation is impossible. Aborting"

it is ext4

fstab looks correct. It shows one entry for
/dev/sda1 / ext4

I am not using UUID although when I did the result was the same.

when run with debug, the problem is
/usr/bin/grub-probe -t fs /boot/grub
results in path no readable.

when I run the grub-probe inside the chroot, I get error: unknown filesystem

haven't had this before. This is the first time I've tried a GPT install.
It is virtualbox 4.2.18
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Last edited by timrichardson (2013-10-15 10:10:50)

timrichardson

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Registered: 2013-02-12

Posts: 10

Re: [solved] grub install fails /boot/grub is not readable

Ah, my mistake was an incorrect partition table back when I partitioned the disk. I did not make a partition table for GPT partitions.