System update destroyed my multiboot. [SOLVED]

jdiez · 2009-08-03 23:36:53

Hi, this is my first post in the forum..

I have an Asus EEE happily running Archlinux, and it works pretty fine. This was my first time installing an Arch system.

I was so comfy with this Linux distro that I decided to install it on my iMac. The first time I did this was easy, I could install it normally and all went OK. Until I decided to do a `pacman -Syu` because of my WiFi card. The PKGBUILD said I needed kernel .30. OK, 150MB of downloading at 50kbps after that, I rebooted and... guess what? My GRUB freaked out.

Everytime I try to boot linux, grub says "loading stage 2" and then, it suddenly shutdowns. I have tried to reinstall multiple times from the CD, and the same thing happened.

Any ideas?

EDIT:
CFDisk outputs this:

Name Flags Part type FS Type Size (MB)
sda1 NC Primary GPT 209.74*
sda2 Primary Unknown (AF) 79322.68*
sda4 Boot Primary Linux 79503.38*
sda3 Primary Linux 1003.49*

Last edited by jdiez (2009-08-04 14:23:03)

ProgDan · 2009-08-04 13:00:37

If GRUB is unable to load stage 2 it usually means it can't find stage 2 on disk. It's possible your GRUB is wrong configured. If CFDisk outputs the partition in this order (sda4 followed by sda3) in grub they are listed as hd(0,2) and hd(0,3). Try to check it from some live CD.

stryder · 2009-08-04 13:52:54

Perhaps this http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76623 might help? (see last post)

jdiez · 2009-08-04 14:22:47

Nevermind, I just erased the whole hard disk and installed Archlinux there. Then I reinstalled Mac OS X. This is huge!

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#1 2009-08-03 23:36:53

System update destroyed my multiboot. [SOLVED]

#2 2009-08-04 13:00:37

Re: System update destroyed my multiboot. [SOLVED]

#3 2009-08-04 13:52:54

Re: System update destroyed my multiboot. [SOLVED]

#4 2009-08-04 14:22:47

Re: System update destroyed my multiboot. [SOLVED]

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