Ran that Sudo -E minstall from terminal and went through installation to grub install part of installer and it failed there again. I got copy of the terminal output here. I'll try it again then once and see if I can get to the Root password part of installer. I'll do what I can to help you guys out, cause I love MX Linux (hate systemd) and MX Linux is one distro I can install Brave browser in without much hassles lol
Mauser wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:11 pm
Did you check the checksum of the download to make sure you have a good downloaded copy?
Nah, I don't usually check checksum for doing Virtual Machine installs. If I do installs on host /main machines I check the checksums. I did download it from one of the linked mirrors from MXLinux site though. Not from outside sources / other odd ball sites.
Even downloading the from the linked mirrors from MX Linux web site doesn't guarantee it's a good copy. It still could be a bad copy.
Yeah you're right, I should have kept the tab open that I had downloaded it from, then someone else could test it as well. *kicks self* I'll have to start making it habit to check the checksums from now on for virtual machines and host machine installations. >_<
Wondering if this may shed some light, the above is for non-UEFI install.
So do you have 386 or x64?
ohh
Title of thread, x64. :) Under settings for the VM there is floppy checked, optical checked, hard disk checked. Not sure if it helps or not, but the first time I installed it and grub failed was letting the installer do the partitioning itself. The second time I installed it and I couldn't get past the user account creation is when I opened gparted and created one big partition the size of entire hard drive (30GB) and made it ext4 (primary)... no swap partitions, no nothing else. Just entire drive as ext4 and primary. Of course the installer went and did the formatting and partitioning anyway lol I managed to get to user creation part of installation process and got the error about root password.
matteopa wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:10 pm
Ran that Sudo -E minstall from terminal and went through installation to grub install part of installer and it failed there again. I got copy of the terminal output here. I'll try it again then once and see if I can get to the Root password part of installer. I'll do what I can to help you guys out, cause I love MX Linux (hate systemd) and MX Linux is one distro I can install Brave browser in without much hassles lol
dolphin_oracle wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:07 pm
thank you for this...it will help us zero in on the point of problem.
could you also provide a system report (quick-system-info will copy it to your clipboard for easy pasting into a forum message)
Sure no problem, anything to help you all out. :) And yeah I could run that then. I deleted that VM and had tried again little while ago and got same grub error /issue. Going to attempt a new install once with new VM of it.
Since the OP is running the Live session in Virtual Box, I don't think we'll see much hardware information except for the CPU and battery, if present. Information about the host OS and the VBox VM settings would be welcome, though, like if 3D acceleration is enabled for the VM.
Stevo wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:29 pm
Since the OP is running the Live session in Virtual Box, I don't think we'll see much hardware information except for the CPU and battery, if present. Information about the host OS and the VBox VM settings would be welcome, though, like if 3D acceleration is enabled for the VM.
Yep, 3d acceleration is enabled, basically 1G ram and 1 processor. Floppy, optical, and hard disk checked. Shared clipboard and Drag n Drop are "bidirectional". PAE/NX enabled. And these settings here in image.
Alright, the last 2 or 3 times I couldn't get past the grub installation and had that error I posted above there. This time I went through installer without issues and didn't get root password error either. Apparently like was mentioned before it happens sporadically. I'll try again a few more times and see if I get root password error again though, cause it's obvious the bug is there but not always happening.
matteopa wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:33 pm
Nah, I don't usually check checksum for doing Virtual Machine installs. If I do installs on host /main machines I check the checksums. I did download it from one of the linked mirrors from MXLinux site though. Not from outside sources / other odd ball sites.
ALWAYS check.
We need to be sure that your checksum is good or we'll be helping to no avail after all. :)
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