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jellywerker

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From: Sunny Seattle

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 286

Grub help

I  reinstalled arch, and forgot how I set up grub. When I do the defaults it takes me to the grub commandline, but how do I boot from there, and how do I create a menu?

scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: Grub help

You can reboot from your Arch CD, mount your existing partitions and reinstall Grub, omitting the other installation steps.

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jellywerker

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From: Sunny Seattle

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 286

Re: Grub help

I know that, but how do I make a menu, etc...

firedance

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2005-04-18

Posts: 131

Re: Grub help

http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Gr … 20examples

grub.conf can be found in /boot/grub/

xerxes2

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From: Malmoe, Sweden

Registered: 2004-04-23

Posts: 1,249

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Re: Grub help

I know that, but how do I make a menu, etc...

your problem seems to be that grub is looking for the menu.lst file in the wrong place(/boot/grub/menu.lst is located in another partition),
you have to reinstall grub again as explained in the wiki, this has to do with your specific partition layout,

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jellywerker

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From: Sunny Seattle

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 286

Re: Grub help

ahh, thank you, it works now

kozaki

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From: London >. < Paris

Registered: 2005-06-13

Posts: 673

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Re: Grub help

You can reboot from your Arch CD, mount your existing partitions and reinstall Grub, omitting the other installation steps.

I just did that :
- Saved my Ubuntu-created /boot/grub to Ubuntu /home/me *
- forgot to install Grub bootlaoder *
- rebooted on Install (base) CDRom,
- went straightfully to 'Partitionning' then pointing the right partition for "SWAP", then pointing to the right partition for "/" but *without* writing it since I don't want to install all again. It then mounted / flawlesly
- configured then installed Grub on an unmounted partition (hda6, which is Ubuntu /home)

Thereafter I was unable to boot, neither to find that [/hda6]/grub i was expecting :shock:

* Should have backed up whole /boot directory. Big mistake. Tired I was, stupid mistakes i did :oops:

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