Arch Linux

saciel

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-30

Posts: 153

Reactivating Arch's GRUB?

After installing Arch Linux I had Ubuntu installed on another partition of my harddrive. Unfortunatelly, it was not possible to install it without a boot manager, so Arch's Version of Grub was replaeced with Ubuntu's.

I know would like to uninstall Ubuntu again which would make grub pointing to a non-existant menu.lst and god-knows what else grub needs. Is there an easy way to rereplace it with Arch's Grub, so I can safely format my Ubuntu partition?

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paperinik

Member

Registered: 2005-05-25

Posts: 46

Re: Reactivating Arch's GRUB?

While in Arch, execute from command line:

grub
root (hd0,x)
setup (hd0)
quit

x=the / partition (if /dev/hda1 x=0, if /dev/hda2 x=1, etc)

saciel

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-30

Posts: 153

Re: Reactivating Arch's GRUB?

Thanks a lot. It worked out fine! I was searching in the grub manpage for hours for that -.-

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pressh

Developer/TU

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Reactivating Arch's GRUB?

Thanks a lot. It worked out fine! I was searching in the grub manpage for hours for that -.-

You could as well have done from within Arch:

grub-install /dev/hda

which is a bit shorter