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by antistatic
Sun Jan 19, 2025 1:58 pm
Forum: Commodore OS Software Issues
Topic: Installation fails on grub step on virtualbox [no issue]
Replies: 6
Views: 1216

Re: Installation fails on grub step on virtualbox

While fiddling around with grub and actually getting everything to work manually I finally saw my issue here. Simply not enough disk space… :o For a proper installation the virtual disk needs at least 25 GiB (I chose around 30GiB) . I tried only once - however installer ran through without any issue...
by antistatic
Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:10 am
Forum: Commodore OS Software Issues
Topic: Installation fails on grub step on virtualbox [no issue]
Replies: 6
Views: 1216

Re: Installation fails on grub step on virtualbox

Okay… I was able to install grub manually following these steps: 1. Start the Installer as usual. Then select a custom partition layout and uncheck the "Install Grub for Linux0 and Windows" option (click next and continue with the installation as usual) 2. To install grub I ran "mx-bo...
by antistatic
Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:04 pm
Forum: Commodore OS Software Issues
Topic: Installation fails on grub step on virtualbox [no issue]
Replies: 6
Views: 1216

Re: Installation fails on grub step on virtualbox

Okay thanks! Selecting Ubuntu (64 bit; no specific version) does not seem to have any effect. Also tried removing guest addions for the live system (version 6.1.32 btw. -> very likely incompatible with VBox 7). Is this what you mean? Because otherwise this requires a reboot and it is quite complex t...
by antistatic
Sun Jan 05, 2025 4:55 pm
Forum: Commodore OS Software Issues
Topic: Installation fails on grub step on virtualbox [no issue]
Replies: 6
Views: 1216

Re: Installation fails on grub step on virtualbox

Setup is pretty (boring) standard hardware (x86_64 intel laptop). Host is (also boring) up-to-date Manjaro "stable". For reference: Two other Linux guests installed just fine only a few days ago. Looks like some strange race condition with only MX (no clue…). Out of curiosity I tried sever...
by antistatic
Sat Jan 04, 2025 1:28 pm
Forum: Commodore OS Software Issues
Topic: Installation fails on grub step on virtualbox [no issue]
Replies: 6
Views: 1216

Installation fails on grub step on virtualbox [no issue]

Hey, like the title says I am trying out COS in virtualbox (the 2023-12 iso). When the installer tries to set up grub it shows an error dialog (no additional information there) and outputs the following. Installing GRUB grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --no-floppy --force --boot-directory=/mn...