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varghesekrenny

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Registered: 2012-11-07

Posts: 17

How to install grub-bios on arch linux during installation?

Hi

While going through wiki i have seen
grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/csda
but i386 seems to be strange for me..Since i am using 64 bit system.
How should i modify the command to  match for 64 bit installation?

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varghese

Antoine

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From: Picton Ontario

Registered: 2012-10-11

Posts: 90

Re: How to install grub-bios on arch linux during installation?

While going through wiki i have seen
grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/csda
but i386 seems to be strange for me..Since i am using 64 bit system.
How should i modify the command to  match for 64 bit installation?

It's legacy terminology, or perhaps it refers to the BIOS, not your OS. I presume it means "i386, not Motorola RISC" or something; grub goes way back. Look at the files in the 64-bit package -- they all refer to "usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/" and so on. I've installed grub2 on my 64-bit system according to the wiki instructions and it boots just fine, GPT and all.

varghesekrenny

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Registered: 2012-11-07

Posts: 17

Re: How to install grub-bios on arch linux during installation?

Ok thanks

the.ridikulus.rat

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From: Indiana, USA

Registered: 2011-10-04

Posts: 765

Re: How to install grub-bios on arch linux during installation?

Quote from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2

Note: Without --target or --directory option, grub-install cannot determine for which firmware grub(2) is being installed. In such cases grub-install will show source_dir doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory message. Also, --target=i386-pc is correct for 64-bit systems, as well.

Last edited by the.ridikulus.rat (2012-11-09 13:32:52)

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varghesekrenny

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Registered: 2012-11-07

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Re: How to install grub-bios on arch linux during installation?

Initially i i done arch-chroot /mnt ..i entered into a shell prompt, where i did the wiki instruction.At the time of grub-bios installation when i run the command it shows multilib is not uptodate, so exit out of shell and run pacman base base-devel again..
I thought it updating multilib. Now i am not able to enter as early using arch-chroot /mnt..its saying API for this file system doesn't exist...

I need to continue with my installation in shell prompt.How can i  accomplish that?

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,132

Re: How to install grub-bios on arch linux during installation?

Please don't cross-post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=152578

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