SOLVED: GRUB installation failed

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antiX Linux Installer gave this:

GRUB installation failed. You can reboot to the live medium and use the GRUB Rescue menu to repair the installation.

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.182-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 
  v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.5.5+git20190610 
  Distro: antiX-19.b2_386-full Marielle Franco 13 July 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: Presario 2100 v: KE.M1.54 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 002A v: NS570 Version PQ1A74 serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Phoenix v: KE.M1.54 date: 12/17/20022 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Mobile Intel Celeron bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 7 L2 cache: 256 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 3189 
  Speed: 1595 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1595 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RS200M [Radeon IGP 330M/340M/345M/350M] 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:05.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: ULi M5451 PCI AC-Link Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_ali5451 v: kernel bus ID: 00:06.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.182-antix.1-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: ULi M7101 Power Management [PMU] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  type: network bridge driver: ali1535_smbus v: N/A port: 2000 
  bus ID: 00:11.0 
  Device-2: National DP83815 Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: natsemi v: kernel port: 2400 bus ID: 00:12.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 63.36 GiB used: 1.62 GiB (2.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK6025GAS size: 55.89 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: USB FLASH DRIVE size: 7.47 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 371.0 MiB used: 2.1 MiB (0.6%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 125 Uptime: 40m Memory: 487.5 MiB used: 195.3 MiB (40.1%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  inxi: 3.0.33 

• This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by andfree.

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I also tried with antiX-19.b3_386-base.iso.
Same result.

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Are you sure the hard drive is ok?

Try setting up the partitions with gparted before running the installer.

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I’m afraid I wasted your time. I hadn’t noticed that the default destination for GRUB was not the hard disk, but the “fd0”. I changed it, and the installation was finished without more problems. Sorry.

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