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diesel47

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Registered: 2015-07-25

Posts: 11

[SOLVED] Trying to install Arch on a Macbook Air, Grub.

hey guys, I've been trying to install Arch as a learning process. I am fascinated by the way you have to install it and I think using it will help teach me linux much faster than any other way.
I used to use ubuntu but then got bored with it.. It seemed like an OSX clone type thing.

So I have a Macbook Air 6,1 (2014 model) and I've been trying to install a single boot Arch Linux on it. I've gone through the beginners guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_guide), watched a bunch of youtube videos.. And even translated a french guide to english to try to get this thing working... I think the biggest problem is getting it to work with the mac's EFI.. I do not wish to use rEFInd or something similar, nor do I want to try to do bios emulation.

So I did everything up to downloading GRUB in the beginner guide, then I switched the french version to do the "mac specific" stuff it wanted me to do. (Found here under "Installation": https://wiki.archlinux.fr/MacBook)

Now when I start the computer... Grub shows up, then when I pick the first option.. Arch Linux.. I get the errors:

Error: No such device: *UUID IS HERE*.
Loading Linux core repo kernel ...
error: no such partition.
loading initial ramdisk ...
alloc magic is broken at 0x6144bac0: 614df220
Aborted. Press any key to exit.

What did I do wrong?

There is not much info on the web about installing arch on a mac, I have been looking but I cannot find anything real. I just cannot get past this part...

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Last edited by diesel47 (2015-07-25 03:39:04)

Durden

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Registered: 2011-06-19

Posts: 261

Re: [SOLVED] Trying to install Arch on a Macbook Air, Grub.

Paste a copy of the /etc/fstab here so we can see what you've got setup.

Last edited by Durden (2015-07-25 02:27:10)

diesel47

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Registered: 2015-07-25

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Trying to install Arch on a Macbook Air, Grub.

Hey, thanks for the quick reply!

Heres the fstab

# /dev/sda3
UUID=2314b1b2-750d-4ab9-b27f-5cbd75e0a10b        /            ext4     rw,relatime,data=ordered      0  1

#/dev/sda2
UUID=2fe1a589-7197-4084-afb7-81fcd5a69d0d          none     swap    defaults                                 0  0

Knute

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From: Minot, ND

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 604

Re: [SOLVED] Trying to install Arch on a Macbook Air, Grub.

So is the UUID in your grub cfg correct?

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Knute

diesel47

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Registered: 2015-07-25

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Trying to install Arch on a Macbook Air, Grub.

Wow a feel like a dummy..

You actually have to generate the grub CFG to look at it.. or for grub to work. Doh.

Thanks alot to the both of you, I guess all that reading made my brain into mush and I forgot.

Until next time...

Knute

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From: Minot, ND

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 604

Re: [SOLVED] Trying to install Arch on a Macbook Air, Grub.

LOL

Glad you made up the 3%. 

If this is solved, you may want to mark it as such.

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Knute