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tkbx

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GRUB error after installation (normal.mod not found)

I just installed Arch and GRUB to an external drive. When I try to boot to the drive, I get the following:

/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod not found

I found this post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=147568
but their problem appears to be UEFI-related, I'm using BIOS.

I'm wondering, though, if I'm using x86_64, why is it looking for a file with i386? I'm following a guide that says to install GRUB with: grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sdb
That might be part of the problem.

EDIT: /boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod exists on the drive I'm booting to, and I still get this error.

Last edited by tkbx (2013-04-06 15:04:26)

tkbx

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Re: GRUB error after installation (normal.mod not found)

All right, I formatted and tried syslinux, and, after formatting my drive, I somehow managed to get a GRUB error. How is this even possible?

s1ln7m4s7r

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Re: GRUB error after installation (normal.mod not found)

All right, I formatted and tried syslinux, and, after formatting my drive, I somehow managed to get a GRUB error. How is this even possible?

Maybe because you haven't run

syslinux-install_update -iam

???

You should post all the steps you did to install if you want us to help you, or we will work blind.

And are you really shure your running bios and not UEFI???? Have you checked you bios options????

Last edited by s1ln7m4s7r (2013-04-06 17:05:25)

tkbx

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Registered: 2013-04-06

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Re: GRUB error after installation (normal.mod not found)

All right, I formatted and tried syslinux, and, after formatting my drive, I somehow managed to get a GRUB error. How is this even possible?

Maybe because you haven't run

syslinux-install_update -iam

???

You should post all the steps you did to install if you want us to help you, or we will work blind.

And are you really shure your running bios and not UEFI???? Have you checked you bios options????

I basically followed this: http://lifehacker.com/5680453/build-a-k … he-process

I erased the mbr, cfdisk'd my drive again, mkfs.etx4'd that partition (only using one partition), and grub is 100% gone, it would seem. Tried syslinux again, this time I got "boot error", I'll try running

syslinux-install_update -iam

I'm fairly positive it's BIOS, it's an Inspiron desktop.

Last edited by tkbx (2013-04-06 20:27:35)

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Re: GRUB error after installation (normal.mod not found)

I basically followed this: http://lifehacker.com/5680453/build-a-k … he-process

You will save yoursefl a whole lot of grief if you just use the Arch documentation. Start with the Beginners' Guide...

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tkbx

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Registered: 2013-04-06

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Re: GRUB error after installation (normal.mod not found)

I basically followed this: http://lifehacker.com/5680453/build-a-k … he-process

You will save yoursefl a whole lot of grief if you just use the Arch documentation. Start with the Beginners' Guide...

I followed it pretty much exactly, and still getting this error. Only difference I really made was running this on the drive before partitioning it:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1

This is because of the problem I described where I somehow managed to get a GRUB error after doing mkfs.ext4 on the drive and installing syslinux, so I wanted to be sure it was gone. I've decided there's no reason not to stick with GRUB unless syslinux can solve this problem. I followed the beginner's guide, and GRUB is still giving me this.