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Grub-install error installing

marshy919

Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:04:49 am

Hey guys,
Never used Linux before, this distro took my attention.

I am installing from USB.
I have 3 hard drives installed.

sda is my ssd drive with w8 installed
sdb is where I'm installing zorin
sdc is my storage drive

When installing, I'm choosing the bootloader to install on sda.
But no matter which one I chose, it errors once installation is finished.

The error I get everytime is grub-install /dev/sda failed
I have googled this immensely and tried a few methods, nothing seems to work.

Any support would be great :)
Thanks

Swarfendor437

Wed Jun 04, 2014 11:47:13 am

Hi, could you please provide us with more information?:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5449

Also, did you check the downloaded .iso for files before installing to USB stick? Did you fully format the USB stick to FAT32? What USB installer were you using? What are the size of your other drives - GNU/Linux cannot see beyond 2 TB.

The major issue will be the fact that you have Winows 8 installed, in which case I would advise that you disable your SSD and Data drive to install to the second drive and see if this tutorial can get you sorted:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6500#p30970