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hey every body , i just installed ubuntu alongside of arch and that make arch boot partition be removed( i think by my bad installation) . so now i want to get back my arch . i formated the boot partition (on /dev/sda1) and with a bootable arch in usb-flash i did :
mksfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
arch-chroot /mnt
mount /dev/sda1 /boot
grub-install /dev/sda1
but it give this error :
`
warning : file system ext2 dosnot support embeding
warning : grub can only be installed in this setup by using block lists.
error : will not proceed with blocklist
`
my partiions :
`
number start end size type file system flags
1 1049kB 368MB primary ext4 boot
2 368MB 4562MB primary linux-swap
3 4562 74.6G primary ext4
4 ...
5 ....
6 ....
`
where is the problem , i just installed arch by this partitioning before , why now it give this error ??
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I don't use grub, but I'm pretty sure you should point grub-install at a disk, not a partition. The wiki suggests as much.
Mod note: not an installation issue, moving to NC.
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I always get that error message if trying to install GRUB to an individual partition.
Using /dev/sda as the target should work
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Are you sure this isn't a UEFI system, not a BIOS system? The wiki shows how to determine if you are booted in UEFI mode. It sounds like you formatted the ESP. It needs to be FAT32, not one of the ext partition types. If you are in UEFI mode, grub installs to the ESP, not an MBR region on a disk.
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