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whitetimer

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Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 207

Trying to reinstall Grub after windows 8.1 install

Hi All

I have just had to carry out a clean install of windows 8.1 and have trouble trying to get grub to reinstall and grub-mkconfig to run and add the windows menu entry again.  This is what I have done.

mount -t ext4 /dev/sda5 /mnt  where sda5 is the root installation of arch

arch-chroot /mnt

grub-install /dev/sda

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

unmount

reboot

Any suggestions

Cheers

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 8,778

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Re: Trying to reinstall Grub after windows 8.1 install

Windows has probably installed in EFI-mode.

From the chroot environment, post the output of:

lsblk -f
# parted -l

Also, please post in full any error messages given when you run the commands you have listed in the OP.

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