On 19/04/2010 23:27, John Beranek wrote:
On 19/04/2010 22:39, John Beranek wrote:
I downloaded the M5 Gnome Live CD in order to give it a go, and then attempted to do a live install.
I chose an LVM partition setup, and at the point the installer attempted to mount the root partition it failed, saying it had failed to mount "/dev/system/root on /" (apologies I'm getting this from memory rather than a log file).
I'm now trying an install from the Live CD using a partition-based setup, and it appears to be working.
Well, working until the installer went to install the bootloader...at this point it hung. I waited quite a while but nothing further happened - I reset the VM and the resulting system was not bootable. :/
Weird, made some attempt to fix the botched live-install: *) Booted the VM with System Rescue CD *) Verified partitioning: looks fine *) Mounted root partition, looked mostly fine, except the initrd hadn't been created *) Ran mkinitrd with no extra parameters - not sure if this is good enough, especially with a VMware VM... *) Ran grub-install with no parameters. Still only get a blank screen at boot time if I let the VM boot from the HDD. What am I doing wrong? What else can I do on the rescue system to fix the boot? Cheers, John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake