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Tried installing on the latest VMware Workstation 16.2.2-19200509 with Windows 10 host. Parrot-security-5.0-beta1-amd64.iso. Have trouble with Grub at end of install.

  • Hardware information:
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System:
  Host: parrot Kernel: 5.15.0-5parrot1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: MATE 1.24.1 Distro: Parrot OS 5.0 (LTS)
Machine:
  Type: Vmware System: VMware product: VMware Virtual Platform v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Intel model: 440BX Desktop Reference Platform
    serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Phoenix v: 6.00 date: 11/12/2020
Memory:
  RAM: total: 1.9 GiB used: 1.08 GiB (56.7%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-3470 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3193 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 3193 2: 3193
Graphics:
  Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.19.0.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: vmware
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1582x907~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5
Audio:
  Device-1: Ensoniq ES1371/ES1373 / Creative Labs CT2518 driver: snd_ens1371
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-5parrot1-amd64 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.19 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge driver: N/A
  Device-2: Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 40 GiB used: 12.11 GiB (30.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: VMware model: Virtual S size: 40 GiB
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: NECVMWar model: VMware IDE CDR10
    dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd
  Features: speed: 1 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
    rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
    1: deb https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot lts main contrib non-free
    2: deb-src https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot lts main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/parrot.list
    1: deb https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot parrot main contrib non-free
    2: deb https://deb.parrot.sh/direct/parrot parrot-security main contrib non-free
    3: deb https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot parrot-backports main contrib non-free

Edit: I get the same Grub error when installing on the latest VirtualBox 6.1.32 r149290