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tinbolw

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Registered: 2020-10-17

Posts: 16

[SOLVED] GRUB doesnt load on boot

I am trying to create a working USB stick with Arch Linux on it, and I've already gotten Arch working on it, but GRUB just doesn't work. While chrooted into it, I installed the grub package via pacman and after that ran

grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sdb
grub-mkconfig -o boot/grub/grub.cfg

and then I tried booting into the USB. GRUB doesn't load, and my computer continues booting from my hard drive instead. What should I do to fix this?

Last edited by tinbolw (2021-03-23 02:18:02)

zeroxoneafour

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Registered: 2021-03-20

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] GRUB doesnt load on boot

Is your computer UEFI or BIOS? Is your hard drive GPT or MBR? Right now you are seemingly setting up Grub for a BIOS/MBR setup.

tinbolw

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Registered: 2020-10-17

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] GRUB doesnt load on boot

My computer is BIOS and the partitioning scheme on my USB is GPT. I would however like to get GRUB on the USB working for both BIOS and UEFI systems since I'll be using this on more than one computer.

edacval

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From: .LT

Registered: 2008-10-23

Posts: 98

Re: [SOLVED] GRUB doesnt load on boot

you may be interested in this thread

Last edited by edacval (2021-03-23 04:08:01)

tinbolw

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Registered: 2020-10-17

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] GRUB doesnt load on boot

After reformatting the USB as MBR, I found that it now works as expected.

Last edited by tinbolw (2021-03-23 02:18:22)