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AtheistSpacePony

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lol I suck... how do I fix this?

So... I'm trying to practice installing arch linux in a virtual machine without the beginner guide... so that I don't have to rely on that all the time...

This is what I got when running mkinitcpio:
http://imgur.com/kMEUKaM

and boot loader install:
http://imgur.com/dd24mzG

tbh I dunno what I did wrong...
I partitioned the drive as you see here:
http://imgur.com/obpUDeZ

I formatted the partitions... I mounted to /mnt... I ran pacstrap /mnt base base-devel... I've generated the fstab... chrooted into /mnt, ran mkinitcpio linux, and then when I got to the bootloader, I failed. Did I miss something?

Thanks a bunch.

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alphaniner

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Re: lol I suck... how do I fix this?

I think you need to spend some more time with the Install Guide and/or Beginner's Guide, or at least get used to referring to the manpages when a command doesn't turn out as you thought it would.

I can't help you with Grub, but here are a few tips: Your mkinitcpio command is mal-formatted; it's missing an important flag. Use fdisk -l or gdisk -l to demonstrate your partition setup. Lsblk is great, but not the correct tool in this situation because it doesn't show the physical characteristics of partitions.

Also, you're not going to make friends here posting images of text output. I'm pretty sure there's something on the wiki about redirecting, saving, and uploading text output.

Edit: you should also change your title to something that's actually informative.

Last edited by alphaniner (2016-05-06 02:58:11)

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jasonwryan

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Re: lol I suck... how do I fix this?

Edit: you should also change your title to something that's actually informative.

This. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_post

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Jristz

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Registered: 2011-06-11

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Re: lol I suck... how do I fix this?

Look like a limitation on mbr partitions, aparently grub can install if the partitions start in block 0 (I think that why gparted always start from 1M the partitions).

an option is give that 1024 (1M) at the of the disk so grub can sel embeded.

I'm not sure if you can avoid this with syslinux, but I think someother arch using syslinux can answer that.

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ngoonee

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Re: lol I suck... how do I fix this?

Out of curiosity, is installing Arch really something you want to practice? How often do you think you'll need to be doing it?

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fukawi2

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Re: lol I suck... how do I fix this?

.... without the beginner guide... so that I don't have to rely on that all the time...

Have you referred back to the Beginner Guide now that you've come across a problem? That would solve at least your first error.

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