Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to restart a text mode install that failed half way through?
The system should really install the bootloader before installing software after minimal so that a basic level of functionality is there in case of an accident.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to restart a text mode install that failed half way through?
So I didn't restart the installer but I did everything manually. Simply, mount the hard drive you have Linux on. mount /dev/sdfoo /mnt Mount special directories mount /dev /mnt/dev mount /proc /mnt/proc mount /sys /mnt/sys Chroot into the mount chroot /mnt Install grub apt-get install grub Install the basic stuff /usr/sbin/grub-install /dev/sdfoo Update the menu.lst file update-grub And you're done
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to restart a text mode install that failed half way through?
Some caveats - a) I've never done exactly this so I can't promise it will work b) I strongly question the wisdom of running Trisquel on a machine too small to run the text mode installer. Having said those the procedure will be something like boot text mode install get past select language and keyboard Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to the second console Press Enter to start the Busybox shell Then where /dev/sdX is your root and boot partition # mount /dev/sdX /target # mount --bind /proc /target/proc # mount --bind /sys /target/sys # chroot /target # /usr/sbin/grub-install /dev/sdX # /usr/sbin/update-grub /dev/sdX # exit # umount /target/proc # umount /target/sys # umount /target # reboot That's how I got around a failed grub install due to a screen corruption bug with the Belenos betas text mode installer. But that was much later in the process, so it might not work for you.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to restart a text mode install that failed half way through?
Yeah, my machine has 4GB of space. I suspect the actual reason the kernel crashed was that I booted the machine in legacy mode and the legacy BIOS code wasn't tested with Linux so the kernel mapped special hardware memory as usable memory which caused bad things.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to restart a text mode install that failed half way through?
Seems you did better than I could remember off the top of my head (i.e. /dev) in between the time I started typing and my next email refresh. :-) A pox on cheap BIOSes, I'm sure you'll agree.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is it possible to restart a text mode install that failed half way through?
So for other reasons (EFI support is flaky) I need to redo the above stuff with grub-efi but I also need to install grub-efi first. I need to get some network stuff running so I can do DNS inside the chroot and apt-get can resolve the archives. How do I get the net stuff working as well inside the chroot?
