#1 2017-05-20 18:47:56

Garrett

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Registered: 2016-01-07

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[SOLVED] grub-install not found anywhere

I put BL on a new machine and GRUB failed to install. I finished the BL install and ran the live USB, only to find that grub-install and update-grub were missing. They also didn't exist in apt's repositories.

$ sudo grub-install /dev/nvme0n1 && sudo update-grub
sudo: grub-install: command not found

$ sudo apt-get install grub-install update-grub
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package grub-install
E: Unable to locate package update-grub

$ grep -h ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian bunsen-hydrogen main

Any ideas?

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2017-05-21 10:29:41)

damo

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Re: [SOLVED] grub-install not found anywhere

They are in the package 'grub2-common'. Try installing that.

(Menu -> Help&Resources -> Debian -> Package Search, and search for files in package contents )

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Garrett

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From: New York

Registered: 2016-01-07

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Re: [SOLVED] grub-install not found anywhere

Thanks, damo.

I installed 'grub2-common' to no avail. It installed successfully but gave me the same error message. I searched the package contents and came up with 'grub-installer' but it could not be found in the repos. I'm at a loss here. 

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] grub-install not found anywhere

The standard kernel & GRUB packages in BunsenLabs don't work with NVMe devices

Workaround here:

http://www.poweredbyjeff.com/2015/10/29 … an-Jessie/

I would actually recommend Debian stretch instead at this point; we have a "Helium-dev" (Diproton) experimental netinstall script that could be applied to a bare stretch base system:

https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-ne … helium-dev

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Garrett

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From: New York

Registered: 2016-01-07

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] grub-install not found anywhere

Thanks HoaS.

That's a bummer! But I'll give your suggestion a go and report back.

Garrett

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From: New York

Registered: 2016-01-07

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] grub-install not found anywhere

So, using the Helium netinstall script on top of a base Stretch installation worked like a charm! Thanks HoaS! Also, thanks damo!