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xian

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Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 19

Arch 0.7 ISO -- Grub Install Bug?

I only encountered two odd issues during the installation of Arch using the 0.7 final ISO. One of them was that when I attempted to install grub to the root partition, the installer only gave me a list of existing partitions up to dev/hda9 as possible options. Although there were several more (including the arch root and home partitions), the list would not scroll down past that hda9 partition.

I submitted to the will of the installer, and instead edited the lilo.conf file by changing the boot directory to boot=/dev/discs/disc0/part12, which is where I would have installed grub if given the option. But lilo installed fine of course using this method and all is well.

I would have preferred grub, but lilo is fine and I am familiar with using it as a bootloader so in the end it's no big deal. I just wondered if this might be a bug in the installer ... or ... horror, an operator error.

apeiro

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From: Victoria, BC, Canada

Registered: 2002-08-12

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Re: Arch 0.7 ISO -- Grub Install Bug?

That was a bug in the installer.  Fixed for the next release.

Thanks!

xian

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Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 19

Re: Arch 0.7 ISO -- Grub Install Bug?

Oh, okay! Thanks for the info.