Hello everybody I am developing the debian bootstrapper "build-debian-cloud" (https://github.com/andsens/build-debian-cloud) and am having some trouble getting grub to boot my debian installation. Since I bootstrap from a host system (with chroot etc.) I had to use some workarounds to get grub installed onto a loopback device (http://ebroder.net/2009/08/04/installing-grub-onto-a-disk-image/).
The setup consists of a vdi image partitioned with GPT into boot, root, swap (in that order). I am unable to get past the "GRUB loading." message when booting the image in VirtualBox. I have a hard time figuring out what is wrong with the setup, especially because the scenario is a bit off the beaten path (mounting vdi as an network block device, bootstrapping, using dmsetup to fake a real hdd etc.). So the usual "just run BootRepair" or "reinstall grub" won't really help to create a stable bootstrapping process. I have run Ubuntus Boot Repair system to check if anything was wrong, but I can't seem to find anything. The output is here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6115737/ The setup can be fully reproduced by cloning my repo and running `./build-debian-cloud manifests/virtualbox.manifest.json` (only tested on debian wheezy). Simply create a new virtual machine in VBox, attach the resulting image and boot it. I would appreciate any help you can offer _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list Help-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
