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Hi folks. I've recently started mucking about with Arch and apart from the masses of configuration involved I quite like it. (I like 'the Arch way' but only when its not demanding any work from me )
I think I've broken it now though, as there isn't anything in /boot and I suspect that is why I can't start Arch anymore.
Arch had been running fine on its own, but I decided it needed some friends and set about triple booting with Ubuntu and Windows 7.
The disk had Grub, Arch and /home partitions. Gparted told me that I couldn't have 4 primary partitions so I deleted the Grub partition to allow me to create an extended partition to house Ubuntu and Windows partitions. I have since installed Ubuntu(and grub) but can't set up grub to see Arch because there isn't anything in /boot to point to
I haven't got any backups do you reckon I could copy the files from a install CD (or another Arch installation)?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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You'll have to reinstall some packages, namely any kernels you had. You can use pacman's -r option when booting from Arch's install image (which I'm told doubles as a live cd). Man page says, "-r, --root <'path'> Specify an alternative installation root (default is '/')."
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after that, remove the boot partition from arch's fstab, and point Ubuntu's grub2 to kernel & initrd on archs' root partition (you have to configure that in Ubuntu, there are examples in the [wiki]Grub2[/wiki]).
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Actually, once you reinstall your kernel, Ubuntu should find it automatically when you run update-grub.
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ah alright - didn't know grub2 does this...
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I did 'pacman -r /mnt/ -S kernel26' but it appears to be downgrading it from 2.6.34 to 2.6.33 and my nvidia drivers require kernel => 2.6.34 so it crashes before anything happens.
Would I be able to download kernel 2.6.33 or do I need a more recent live CD?
Thanks your help!
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Well if you downgrade your kernel, you will also need to downgrade the nvidia drivers which were modified to support the newer kernel.
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I guess you could download the 2.6.34 package and install it with -Ur, or run a -Syu first, but I think Chrooting would be better.
Last edited by hokasch (2010-07-01 18:54:45)
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Thanks for the advice folks. Running -Syu didn't work (can't remember the error, will retry later). I don't know much about Chrooting, but wouldn't that still break the nvidia drivers?
How would I download and install the 2.6.34 package? I'm still fairly noobish as far as the command line is concerned ( the only other distro I've used is Ubuntu so there wasn't much to be done in the terminal).
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