Arch Linux

eroge008

Member

Registered: 2012-12-16

Posts: 19

Error installing grub boot loader

I am currently following the beginner guide for installing arch, and once I get to the place where I need to install a boot loader and use the command pacman -S grub-bios, I get a seemingly never ending output of "sh: /usr/bin/wget: no such file or directory" then it will change to "warning: failed to retrieve some files from core"(more like all files lol) etc as it goes through the repos. I've followed the guide to a tee, with the exception of the example partitioning on there. Anyone have any ideas on what could be going wrong?

drobole

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From: Norway

Registered: 2012-07-23

Posts: 125

Re: Error installing grub boot loader

It seems like wget is missing on the install partition. This is after you have done arch-chroot right?

I would try to do a

# pacman -Syy wget

to update the archive and install wget
and then try grub-bios again

edit:
If you are still on the install media the command you want to use is
# pacstrap /mnt grub-bios

Last edited by drobole (2012-12-16 11:47:49)