On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:32:16 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> I try to install Wheezy with latest install DVD snapshot (20111011) and >> when installer try to install grub it failed with "grub-pc package >> failed to install into /target/". I switch to terminal four and the log >> says: >> >> "Package grub-pc is not available, but is referred to by another >> package. ... >> Package grub-pc has no installation candidate ... >> grub-installer: info: Calling apt-install grub-pc failed" >> >> Any idea how to solve this problem? The system is a x86_64 system with 4 >> gigs of memory. > > It seems this is a recurrent issue.
Thanks for your help! The previous install DVD (20111003) had the same issue and I think it is corrected in current one. > Are you using the "expert" installer mode? If yes, retry the GRUB install > several times, I don't know why but the installer usually gets stuck in > this step and after some retries it -sometimes- finally can get installed. I am using standard text mode installer. I have tried several times without success. > If that also fails you can skip the step of the bootloader install > (always from an expert install), install as usual and then manually boot > the new system by means of a LiveCD → boot installed system. Once you're > in, you can install GRUB as usual. So that way I did. I boot with recovery option and run shell on Debian partition. Unfortunately the system did not install grub-pc (and gnome as well). So I need to run apt-get and then I can run grub-installer. More or less I follow this steps: http://giantdorks.org/alain/easy-enough-recovery-from-debian-testing-installers-failure-to-install-grub-during-setup/ Bye, a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPkuXvHxrCxsnTwue9�icDSfjXs�nq_wbr78kcq4uq+...@mail.gmail.com