Hi,
I am from India and a fan of Arch & Gnome. I am having problems installing Kahel on my Laptop. The installation freezes when i reach the " Install Packages" option. Nothing happens. On pressing Alt+F7 the message show is " Downloading Packages.tar.gz ". Do i need to have a working internet connection during installation? Does Kahel download any packages from the net during installation? I had the same problem with your earlier version dated 090909.
@sileshn: the section "install packages" really takes a while on my installation experience. It usuaally takes about 10-15 mins.
Installation per se is in progress.
FYI. We're still finishing the installation guide and we'll make sure to note that as well.
Thank you and let us know what happens.
There is no activity on the CD Drive. I will try waiting for 15 minutes and let you know. I think you should make a note of this in your installation guide. thnx.
Did not work for me. Stuck at the Grub Installation for ages. Needs to be a little more responsive.
Hm...by my experience , i have not hung on grub installation ever before.
May i know if theres any out put?
After it shows the contents of the menu.lst file, it asks to choose the place to install the bootloader. On choosing the MBR, it asks if you need to install to any other disk. On choosing no, the system is stuck.
I have been installing KahelOS but really have not encountered the problem that you have just described to us specifically on bootloader part.
1.I chose "vi" then did exit on the editor
2.Then selected /dev/sda (boot device for GRUB)
3.When i reached the part where i had to choose the MBR, it hinted if you need to install to any other disk.- i just selected NO
then the window should display "GRUB was successfully installed". Then reboot your system.
Not really sure on this concern of your (unless there are some output/error prompted), but it might be on your CD installer? or Hardware related issue?
The best i could ask of you is to either:
1. redo the installation procedure
2. burn another cd with the iso image
Here in Odessa, Ukraine...I have the same problem as the OP above, however grub does install, looking at the output, its hung at downloading core.db....can't recall the rest of the filename..grub does not give a installed succefully message, but a reboot at this point, does boot Kahel.
After it shows the contents of the menu.lst file, it asks to choose the place to install the bootloader. On choosing the MBR, it asks if you need to install to any other disk. On choosing no, the system is stuck.
Same problem here. Even though I didn't think it would help, I burnt another CD and tried twice more. No luck. Grub just hangs. When I force a reboot, I get a busy message. I waited both times for nearly an hour. When it reboots, I get a message: GRUB. No menu list, nothing.
Installing it on standalone machine should not be a concern at all on grub during install.
@ssivil: are you installaling on virtual machine? eg. virtualbox. i suspect you are since initially i encountered this error as i installed it on virtualbox for testing.
Error: Couldn't find /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst. Is GRUB Installed?
Solution: I just re-created a new virtual machine and used the following settings and everything went well.( you may wish to try the steps that i did)
Virtual Box Settings:
OS type:Linux
Version: 2.6
Memory is 1GB:
Virtual Hardisk is :8GB
Dynamic Expanding
KahelOS Installation:(this is part of how i partitioned my virtual disk space)
-Auto PArtition:
32MB for /boot
2033 for swap
4000 for /
2127 for /home * auto assign
then i selected ext4 for file system.
again (as stated above):
1.I chose "vi" then did exit on the editor
2.Then selected /dev/sda (boot device for GRUB)
3.When i reached the part where i had to choose the MBR, it hinted if you need to install to any other disk.- i just selected NO
then the window should display "GRUB was successfully installed". Then reboot your system.
hope this helps you too. thanks.
I did a fresh install. No Virtual Box.
After 3 failures, I decided to take the defaults when preparing my disk. If I take these defaults, grub does install; however, when I boot I get a "Filesystem Check failed". It tells me to "mount -n -o remount, rw /" and I do. Noting happens. I reboot and get this message again and again. This makes a total of 5 installs.
When I prepare my disk (the same as in Arch Linux, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Mandrivia and Fedora) when I get to the part where I say "No" to install Grub on another disk, it will just sit there. After 1/2 hour, I reboot. When I reboot, it says "Grub" and just sits there. I used my Ubuntu Live CD and there is no menu.lst in /boot/grub. I tried one last time. Now a total of 6 installs.
Meanwhile, I've reinstalled without any problems Arch with the same partition setup as I tried with Kahel.
Tried everything mentioned here. Does not work. Sticking to Mandriva for the time being.
@sileshn:
This seems to be the problem with some exotic configurations with ulta/non-ultra DMA disks on a single cable. Before installing GRUB on setup screen, could you try to press ctrl-alt-f2, then login as root, and type
$ mount -o remount,rw /mnt/boot
then try to install grub, also try this if it still hangs
$ chroot /mnt && grub-install grub --no-floppy --root-directory=/boot /dev/sda # sda is where you want to install grub, in this case, the mbr of sda.
Another solution is to try not to create a separate /boot partition, and just using a / partition.
You don't need to go through the installation again, if you have installed the packages on your partition, just boot the installer, then press ctrl-alt-f2, login as root then mount your partition.
$ mkdir /myroot
$ mount /dev/sda3 /myroot
$ mount /dev/sda1 /myroot/boot #assuming that sda1 is your boot partition
# then bind the existing running partitions for the devices and kernel state.
$ mount -o bind /dev /myroot/dev
$ mount -o bind /proc /myroot/proc
$ mount -o bind /sys /myroot/sys
# chroot to your system
$ chroot /myroot
# then install grub
$ grub-install grub --no-floppy --root-directory=/boot /dev/sda
Not sure what an exotic configuration is, but when I tried to install everything on one partition formatted as ext4, this too hung while installing Grub. I don't what the default configuration, so this is not going to work for me. Not sure if/when I'll try again. Thanks anyway.
hi all:
i just want to share this, might be related with the grub issues everyone's been. i encountered one installation before where (iirc) the /boot partition or the root partition (where only var and and home were on separate partitions) was thought to be large enough but turned out got full early on that the kernel, and some grub files weren't installed correctly. i forgot the details... (should have written them down) but please bear with me..
installation appears to hang at that step because it seems to be waiting for a successful status from an already dead grub process. grub runs but never successfully installed the complete sector. The GRUB you're seeing is an artifact from a previous installation.
so one should target the problem by making sure /boot has a big (more than enough) space, GB are cheap nowadays anyway. never hurts not to assume with the defaults when having problems.
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