Paul

Me hacking away at things.

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I recently installed a unix system with virtualbox and after reboot it woudnt start at all - no output..

I started a live cd and reinstalled grub. worked like a charm.

link for reinstallation of grub: link

in case some crazy error pops up (Warning:Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.), I also made some host-run directory available in the chroot. just follow this link: link

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