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rgoble4

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Registered: 2010-01-01

Posts: 2

GRUB Fails to Install on Macbook Pro 5,3

Hi All,

I feel like an idiot, never having had GRUB issues before, but for the life of me, I can't get it to install via the setup tool, or the Bootloader Install Guide.

How my filesystem is setup:

/dev/sda is only harddrive
sda1 = EFI
sda2 = OSX
sda3 = swap
sda4 = ext4 mounted to /

My menu.list correctly shows (hd0,3) and I'm trying to install into partition /dev/sda4 as I have rEFIT installed as a master bootloader.

Edit: my fstab

/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda4 / ext4 defaults,relatime,nodiratime 0 1

I don't know how to look at /dev/tty7 to get the error, but am hoping that someone has seen this before and can tell me what I'm missing.

Thanks!

Rob

Last edited by rgoble4 (2010-01-01 19:03:32)

frigaut

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From: Canberra, Australia

Registered: 2009-05-10

Posts: 215

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Re: GRUB Fails to Install on Macbook Pro 5,3

Are you trying to install grub manually, or using the arch installer?
have you tried
grub-install /dev/sda4
I kind of remember that grub install is the last thing the arch installer does. So you can always switch to another VT after it fails and run it by hand, no?

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rgoble4

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Registered: 2010-01-01

Posts: 2

Re: GRUB Fails to Install on Macbook Pro 5,3

I did try that unfortunately, but I can't even get the 'df' command to display the partitions.  So the 'find' command doesn't work and running grub-install simply gets me something like 'file not found'

Chakra also failed, so I may be headed back to Ubuntu.  I love the hardware side of my mac, but am so freaking tired of dealing with EFI. 

After 6 months of 'easy' linux I thought I was ready for something a bit more challenging, but I guess I am not up to the task.

JuseBox

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Registered: 2009-11-27

Posts: 260

Re: GRUB Fails to Install on Macbook Pro 5,3

grub-install /dev/sda ?

doing that should probe your drive for /boot and install

Last edited by JuseBox (2010-01-02 03:42:06)

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