Ok, here's what I have. I have a Samsung Laptop Win7 64bit install host(2 of 4 processors 2G ram), have a guest install of Ubutnu 13.10 64bit Kernel 3.11.0-12-generic (per the uname-l listing).
I had software package updates available so I initiated the update thru the GUI software updater and it failed.
I then went command line thru terminal. apt-get update then apt-get uprade to initiate the install. The install went ok for the most part until......
I got a popup box asking for grub write permissions to /dev/sda. (my windows boot partition). I denied the writing as I have not shared the win 7 boot partition to any of my VMWare guests.
So can anyone explain or know why the grub updater would want to write to the raw sda boot disk it's not supposed to see?
My VM is sized at 20Gb at /dev/sdb1 with system partition 2Gb at /dev/sdb2 and swap 2Gb at /dev/sdb5
The following was copied from the terminal screen during the upgrade. If you want to see more let me know.
It's not earth shattering if I can't figure it out, as I'm only evaluating this version. But I was concerned that it wanted to write to the raw boot partition, when it's a virtual machine.
Thanks.
I had software package updates available so I initiated the update thru the GUI software updater and it failed.
I then went command line thru terminal. apt-get update then apt-get uprade to initiate the install. The install went ok for the most part until......
I got a popup box asking for grub write permissions to /dev/sda. (my windows boot partition). I denied the writing as I have not shared the win 7 boot partition to any of my VMWare guests.
So can anyone explain or know why the grub updater would want to write to the raw sda boot disk it's not supposed to see?
My VM is sized at 20Gb at /dev/sdb1 with system partition 2Gb at /dev/sdb2 and swap 2Gb at /dev/sdb5
The following was copied from the terminal screen during the upgrade. If you want to see more let me know.
Code:
Setting up grub-common (2.00-19ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up grub2-common (2.00-19ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up grub-pc-bin (2.00-19ubuntu2.1) ...
Setting up grub-pc (2.00-19ubuntu2.1) ...
/usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: error: cannot write to `/dev/sda': Input/output error.
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-12-genericThanks.