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I have ESXi 5.0 installed and when I am installing Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (32 bit) it is giving an error saying grub installation failed



Here is a screenshot of the error:






ESXI grub install







  1. I have other Ubuntu servers running fine on this esxi server, so I don't think problem is with ESXi.

  2. I have 32 GB of ram spare on this ESXi and have given 2 GB of RAM to this 12.0 LTS VM.

  3. I have allocated 2 processor cores.

  4. I have tried supplying different ISO Image to this VM as I thought the 1st image that I downloaded has errors. But that's definitely not the case as all 3 different ISO images that I downloaded of Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS (32-bit) can't be corrupt!

  5. Just to make sure that the Image does not have problem I used that Image to install it for testing on stand alone system. it works fine there!

  6. This is a production ESXi server which I can't play with, however I can play with the Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (32-Bit) VM that we have created on that ESXi.






Here is more information for another attempt:




  • For this install, I've given 1 core of the XENON processor, 1 GB of RAM and 20 GB of HHD.


  • I have used LVM with the automatic partition manager (where I do not have to create partitions manually).


  • I do not have any working Ubuntu 12.04 LTS image installed anywhere. :(


  • I tried installing Ubuntu 12.10 on the same VM which worked well, however that is of no use to me as I need Ubuntu 12.04 LTS only for testing purpose.




Please let me know if you need any further details. 



I need help on this as soon as possible, as the go live date of this server is really close.


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I got exactly the same GRUB boot loader error message when trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server under VMware Player 4.0.3.



I then went back to basic installation and at a certain moment you are asked which kernel you are going to use. I chose the second option, i.e. linux-virtual and then it proceeded to reinstall basic services as well as grub and Ubuntu login screen came up.



I keep using 4.0.3 since it seems to be the last version containing vmnetcfg.exe in its cab folder which can be extracted with /e switch, as VMware stopped including this in the newer versions. VMware Player 5 certainly does not have it.



Of course you can opt to use VMware Workstation 8.0 or 9.0 if the money were not the issue.


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