Guys, I tried to install elementary os freya on my laptop. It was going well during the installation, but at the end a window suddenly popped up and said "executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. this is a fatal error" I've googled it but I still have no idea about it What should I do? Thanks..
Hi thariqfarsha, thats strange, the developers promised in their blog elementary 0.3.2.iso should now run without any grub-error, they re-wrote the code for installing. I don't know the solution, but if you already tried to install 0.3.2 until this error message, it may be an idea to install 0.3.1.iso as it has a complete different grub install code. if you have time keep us updated
i have this error ,too , grub failed to install , where can i download freya 0.3.1 , elementary os page only download 0.3.2
Hm, the official website and/or sourceforge doesn't provide 0.3.1 anymore Well, i've got found the images on my drive and will share it with you. You can give it a try. Download Elementary OS 0.3.1 (outdated since 2015-12-09) Spoiler: DOWNLOAD i386 (32bit) https://elementaryforums.com/downloads/elementaryos-stable-0.3.1-i386.20150903.iso sha256sum: 75b6cf0afc8a8d46bdcd646d5f22aac0496c3dd7bf8eafb8897933bfb7048f22 amd64 (64bit) https://elementaryforums.com/downloads/elementaryos-stable-0.3.1-amd64.20150903.iso sha256sum: ca0f5933231fc2d75ef4e82c177c8150a3def9ddb78db8f24da1c6a0c6037390 Checksum info see here Bandwidth throttled to 18MB/s overall. /Please remember, this images are outdated. Check elementary.io
As i know, the most problems are with UEFI. The 32bit 0.3.1 doesn`t support that (bug) and the 64bit makes sometimes trouble too. therefore they made 0.3.2. What could be, if the 0.3.2 installation fails, it may works with 0.3.1 (never tested). After the installation just do sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade to get the patchlevel 0.3.2
