Have you thought about creating a /boot on your hda for your kernel and grub? It's not a pretty solution but it's all I can think of.
]]>I've established thus far, that Noodle install works. It's also somewhat of a pain to install such old software with lit candles, a bag of wiccan-enscribed bleached chicken bones, and a satanic pentagram just to play standards crossover with. And I mean that in fun. But I don't really want to do it, because it's both hard at first, but the "easy" way out.
Where I want my drives=
SCSI: Arch Linux. Specifically proper udev root=sda1, swap=sda5, that's all there is to it. I don't know why swap wants to be sda5, but I am unable to change that.
IDE: Windows. It has four partitions C:Windows Root, F:Swap, G:Storage, E:Storage
What I have established as well, though is previously not divulged:
From within Wombat's install shell
$mount /dev/discs/disc1/part1 /mnt
$mount -t devfs none /mnt/dev
$mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
$chroot /mnt /bin/bash
$install-grub /dev/discs/disc0/disc /dev/discs/disc1/part1
$exit
^^^Seems to install, but I don't know if it will boot becuase I had Noodle's kernel installed at the time. So I think that's why it wouldn't boot.
From within both Noodle and Knoppix shells
$mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
$mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
$mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
$mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys
$chroot /mnt /bin/bash
$install-grub /dev/hda /dev/sda1
error
When I could get a file to write?...ha, ha.
Gonna try to remember the menu.lst file:
title Arch Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd26.img
And I have tried variations such as this:
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)<---this is wrong according to boot errors
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdb1 ro
initrd /initrd26.img #initrd /initrd26-full.img #initrd /boot/initrd-full.img
Ha, ha. Yeah, I think I found out that using another's install disk for the other's kernel doesn't really work, probably if they are very different kernels. But I am still stuck on this.
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]]>Maybe it can be done by booting a Live CD and chrooting into your root partition. You'll probably need to mount a proc fs too for Grub or lilo to work, though.
I read you loud and clear. Thank you. That would only be a minor inconvenience compared to installing Wombat. If you do a quickinst with Noodle it has the instructions for mounting /sys and /proc and then chroot. I noticed the old chroot method outlined in the wiki for quickinst doesn't work.
I wrote these down for future reference.
*Okay, I've got a grasp on it now...if this is my only problem, then going ahead with the Noodle install and chrooting would not prevent me from testing the new disk. Either chrooting for grub, or testing the network recognition with the new disk works or it doesn't.
It's hard to break old ways of thinking when learning something new sometimes. All I remember previously is the install disk being a potential mule. :oops:
]]>But I'm just gonna have to throw in the towel temporarily. All I want to do with this computer is wait for Gimmick with my fingers crossed that it will be able to install GRUB.
I'm jealous of my dad's computer we set up for him. It was a very easy install, and is damn nice. Thank you fellas for that.
***Update***
Bug report filed. Me hopes!!!! Thanks again! I know I can fix what I've done very easily, but why go through more trouble because I need to test the new install disk anyway!!!
So, I'm thinking, maybe I can do the arch quick-install method with Noodle, but I do not know how to issue the proper commands to do FTP install from there. Since nothing else works, maybe this will work?
]]>While trying to install grub-gfx today, I ran into this same error. Grub installed just fine when I first installed arch but now it refuses to. The error message I encountered is identical to the one above. My system is a new (only several days old) install of 0.7.1.
Might be worth reopening that bug report, as the 0.7.2 release is just round the corner.
]]>Ha, ha. I'm gonna figure this horse-malarkey out if it kills me.
]]>0.7.1 rectified it for me.
]]>Quickinst method fails like this
# install-grub /dev/hda /dev/sda1
error: could not convert device to grub format: /dev/sda1