GRUB error during installationprocess

ftornell · 2010-03-03 09:51:56

Hi,
Have been using Windows Vista side-by-side with my Arch installation for a while on my work Laptop and now we switched to Windows 7 so we reformatted the whole drive and it ended up with a default Windows layout, partition 1 100 MB for rescue and partition 2 for Windows 7.

Used gparted and shrank the partition 2 and splitted it so there are now:
partition1 for Windows 7 rescue
partition2 for Windows 7
partition3 for Archlinux / ext4
partition4 for Archlinux swap

But during the Archlinstallation process when I'm about to choose the location of the grub files/settings I have always pointed it towards the sda drive; not a particular partition.
And when I did it this time it ends up with:

Error installing GRUB.
(see /dev/tty7 for output)

tried to use nano on that file but its empty, didn't think tty7 was a readable file?

Whats wrong and how can I fix this?

tomk · 2010-03-03 11:53:32

tty7 means the seventh virtual console on your system - Alt+F7 will get you there.

ftornell · 2010-03-03 11:59:00

ahhh, thx will have a look then! But its correct that it should be placed on sda not a partition like sda1 or so?

tomk · 2010-03-03 12:14:09

Yes.

stevefed5291 · 2010-03-04 15:26:35

did you use the netinstall image or the core image? The only time I've had grub errors during installation was due to a defected burn on an ubuntu install-disk a while back. You might want to run an md5 on the disk you burned and compare it to what it's supposed to be, (via this list)

Last edited by stevefed5291 (2010-03-04 15:28:50)

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#1 2010-03-03 09:51:56

GRUB error during installationprocess

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