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Aquila

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Registered: 2012-12-23

Posts: 46

[SOLVED][Dual-Boot Installation Arch/Win7]Duplicates in boot partition

Hey guys,

I'm trying to install Arch and dual boot windows. On my first attempt at installation I made these 4 partitions

-sda1 (boot) <--Held the win7 boot as first. Decided to make this my linux boot as well
-sda2 <-- Where windows is located
-sda3 <-- Root directory
-sda4 <-- Home directory

I failed to configure Grub properly and only Windows 7 appeared in Grub at reboot. I thought I couldnt access my arch partitions so I decided to do a new install and I deleted the two partitions I made and made a new one. I also tried to make sda1 my boot directory again.

When I tried installing the base system at this point (pacstrap /mnt base base-devel) I get these errors
-error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
-linux: mnt/boot/vmlinuz-linux exists in filesystem
-Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded

Clearly this is because some files from my previous install still exist in the boot partition and causes the error.

I'm not sure what's the best way to proceed from here. I don't want to delete that boot partition because it holds the windows boot. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Thanks!

Last edited by Aquila (2012-12-23 20:18:03)

zyth88

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Registered: 2012-12-21

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED][Dual-Boot Installation Arch/Win7]Duplicates in boot partition

I'm guessing the base system is already installed from the first attempt. chroot into /mnt and fix grub

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#GRUB

shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 468

Re: [SOLVED][Dual-Boot Installation Arch/Win7]Duplicates in boot partition

and if you insist on reinstall, format the partition.

ezik

jkpieka

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Registered: 2012-12-16

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED][Dual-Boot Installation Arch/Win7]Duplicates in boot partition

This is a little off topic, but I had alot of problems installing grub on my first go around too and the beginners guide was useless to me . Your problem seems different then mine though. I could not even get grub to load up. I ended up finding a command while watching a youtube video. I used "grub-install /dev/sdX" (x being your drive of course). I did that while chrooted and it majically fixed all my problems. Grub is real pain to configure for us newbies.

Aquila

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Registered: 2012-12-23

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED][Dual-Boot Installation Arch/Win7]Duplicates in boot partition

Hey guys,

So I decided to reinstall and I made my root directory for Arch be the boot partition as well. For GRUB I allowed os-prober to do all the work and I didn't really change the GRUB config files. It seems to work.