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Malumake

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Registered: 2013-11-22

Posts: 8

Grub error(device not found) after install

Aloha all!

I have Win7 installed on a 200GB MBR drive and I am trying to install Arch on a 3TB GPT drive.  I have also tried to install Fedora, which won't even let me past the drive partitioning section of install.  As stated in the subject, I have Win7 on a 200GB MBR drive and I am trying to install Arch on a 3TB GPT drive.  I used this guide and The Beginners Guide to do the install.  When I reboot, grub fails to grub rescue and throws device does not exist.  I have tried Rescatux and it executes successfully, but grub still fails.  Any help or just point me to right howto would be greatly appreciated.

Mahalo for your time!

riX2000

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Registered: 2013-09-11

Posts: 11

Re: Grub error(device not found) after install

Can you post your /etc/default/grub and the output of

lsblk

Maybe the devices are enumerated differently when not booting from the Arch installation image.
You can try to edit the line in grub (press e in the menu) and change from /dev/sdX# to /dev/sdY# on the linux line. If that makes it work, consider using UUID instead of device name.