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Breakage

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Registered: 2008-02-12

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Need help with Dual-Boot install, I messed up last time.

Hey, I need some help, a couple of weeks back I tried to install Arch on my internal slave drive by reformating it and installing. I followed the wiki closely but after 4 attempts I kept getting "Grub Error 15", it is a dual-boot with xp on my master drive and xubuntu on the slave. In the end I just gave up and reinstalled xubuntu on the slave but i'm getting fed up with crazy dependancys in synaptic so i'd like to give Arch another try.

I think the install went fine and the only issue was with grub, could someone show me how to set it up correct? I've got the arch core iso burned and i'm ready to boot it up. I'll be using Auto-Prepare and setting 32 MB ext2 /boot & 256 MB swap and around 6gb home and 4gb root or something like that all on the second hd. Do I install the bootloader to /boot which was hdb1 last time I think, probably a silly question I know but gotta double check.

Here's my current fdisk -l grub/menu.list:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9dc96e9e

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        9725    78116031    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 10.2 GB, 10248118272 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x53375ee3

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        1187     9534546   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            1188        1245      465885    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            1188        1245      465853+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

## ## End Default Options ##

title        Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root        (hd1,0)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=669706a3-45f4-45b3-9efb-e71d2395cfb2 ro quiet splash vga=795
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet

title        Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root        (hd1,0)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=669706a3-45f4-45b3-9efb-e71d2395cfb2 ro single
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

title        Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root        (hd1,0)
kernel        /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title        Other operating systems:
root

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title        Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root        (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader    +1

So im guessing that Grub should look something like this right?

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root   (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdb1 ro

# (1) Windows
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Any help on this is greatly appeciated

EDIT: I'm going to install then post if my menu.list if I have any errors.

EDIT: Solved!

Last edited by Breakage (2008-02-12 20:37:22)