I am attempting to install Slackware-15.0 in a VirtualBox partition on my Slackware-current machine. I recently switched from elilo to GRUB on my -current installation & that went so easily that I really don't remember what I did. I did some searching & found a video by OldTechBloke on how to use set up GRUB after installation on 14.2. I did not think that the difference between 14.2 & 15.0 would make any difference (was I wrong?). These are the steps I took:
1) Made these partitions: 500M, efi; 4G, swap; ~50G, /.
2) Performed a new installation of 15.0 in VirtualBox, skipping both lilo & elilo installation.
3) At the end of the installation, dropped into a shell instead of rebooting.
4) Did a chroot into the new installation, using:
5) Issued this command to install GRUB:
This gave me the following:
Now I'm lost. I am under the impression that my installation command specified both --target & --directory. I could not come up with the proper search criteria to get any info on the above error. Where do I go from here?

Did you check the box in the VM options that says "Enable EFI (Special OSes only)"? You have to enable this for the VM to emulate a UEFI bios.

I've encountered problems with grub-install when dropping to a shell at the end of installation. What I do now is at the "install elilo prompt", I switch to another console chroot into /mnt and run grub-install grub-mkconfig, exit out of chroot switch back to other console and continue with setup configuration.

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You are getting an error simply because you are typing the wrong command. Look at your command right here:

Such target does not exist. It should be:

It is not a '.', it should be a '-'. That is the reason why you are getting the error:

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I thank all three of you for the responses. slac, you hit the nail on the head. My old eyes & brain looked at "-" & saw ".". Changing that one character caused all to work properly. Thanks again.
Bill

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[QUOTE=TSquaredF;6370502]I am attempting to install Slackware-15.0 in a VirtualBox partition on my Slackware-current machine. I recently switched from elilo to GRUB on my -current installation & that went so easily that I really don't remember what I did. I did some searching & found a video by OldTechBloke on how to use set up GRUB after installation on 14.2. I did not think that the difference between 14.2 & 15.0 would make any difference (was I wrong?). These are the steps I took:
1) Made these partitions: 500M, efi; 4G, swap; ~50G, /.
2) Performed a new installation of 15.0 in VirtualBox, skipping both lilo & elilo installation.
3) At the end of the installation, dropped into a shell instead of rebooting.
4) Did a chroot into the new installation, using:
I've been beating my head against the wall for several hours trying to get grub to install on a new current64 install and had been getting that error about the missing .sh file. I finally found this post and installed grub and it went fine. Thank you VERY much for your solution.