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vegan

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From: Grand Forks, ND, USA

Registered: 2011-06-13

Posts: 78

[SOLVED]Grub on netbook

I was using the Arch installer on a flash drive and I must have did something wrong with the bootloader. Now, when I try to boot up the netbook, it says GRUB and I can't get into anything. That is with the flash drive. I put Ubuntu on a flash drive, to see if I could install Ubuntu and get rid of the problem and try with Arch again, but it won't allow me to use the flash drive with Ubuntu, either.

Then, I removed the hard drive from the netbook, and I get the error message "Grub hard disk problem" or something like that.

I guess I can just throw away the netbook. Does anyone have any other ideas?

Last edited by vegan (2011-11-28 17:09:34)

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felixonmars

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From: Wuhan, China

Registered: 2011-04-15

Posts: 67

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Re: [SOLVED]Grub on netbook

You will need to have usb hook enabled in mkinitcpio.conf, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio for details

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