Boot partitioned grub2

lilsirecho · 2012-08-27 19:31:39

Basic to this method is a free space of 60mb prior to the boot partition. Set this up in gparted along with the desired partitions for your system.

I used the older .iso 2010-08-19 to perform the install. I selected remote core, extra, and community. This allows the latest kernel to be installed.

When selecting he hard drive setup skip the fdisk step and do the mountpoints step since the HDD is already partitioned.

All other steps are normal until the error message....mkinitcpio failed : system may not boot..... Select continue.

Next step: Do you want to continue answer YES. Skip the bootloader step.

Reboot but remove the install device.

Boot into archlinux with another device.

Mount the new drive with the new install and chroot using the device boot partition before chroot command similar to : mount /dev/sda1 boot/

This establishes the location for the grub data.
Do chroot . /bin/bash....

pacman -S grub2-bios
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
grub-install /dev/sda....................(Use your drive letter but not a partition!  This installs grub in MBR)
Now run:
mkinitcpio -p linux
reboot into new installed HDD...login as root at login prompt

This procedure may not be news but The key is the free space prior to the boot partition.

This may help someone to boot from partitioned archlinux boot.

EDIT: The HDD thusly generated will not boot from USB which is the norm for grub2 up to this date.The kernel installed is 3.4.9-1.

Last edited by lilsirecho (2012-08-27 19:37:54)

lilsirecho · 2012-08-29 20:26:27

Installed this procedure into maxell CFcard and it shows 86MB/s in hdparm read.

Boots in five seconds to xfce4 desktop.

Arch Linux

#1 2012-08-27 19:31:39

Boot partitioned grub2

#2 2012-08-29 20:26:27

Re: Boot partitioned grub2

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