Arch Linux

palken

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Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2

Using old grub installation for arch :) [SOLVED]

Hi everyone!

I just started out this day by trying out Arch Linux, mainly because I want to learn some more cli Linux and how Linux works in general.

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad t61 laptop where I already have openSUSE and Windows vista installled, since the disk also have a rescue and recovery partition I didn't touch the MBR when installing openSUSE but made my own boot partition. I have installed Archlinux on a separate partition and didn't install grub because I want to use the one from openSUSE that I know works. So I mounted the partition where I have installed Arch to /media/sda6/ and then made an entry in the openSUSE grub for Archlinux which looks like this.

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title Arch Linux
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x0365 
    initrd /boot/kernel26.img

But when I boot from it I get an error 15 saying it could not find a file and it won't boot. So anyone having a clever solution for this problem or any ideas?

Last edited by palken (2007-12-27 14:12:42)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Using old grub installation for arch :) [SOLVED]

if you have arch installed on sda6 and you have no separate boot partition for arch then the second line should read:

root (hd0,5)

The original arch menu.lst also has ro on the third line, like this:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x0365 ro

palken

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Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2

Re: Using old grub installation for arch :) [SOLVED]

It worked wonderful thanks