Arch Linux

agilley007

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From: Eden, Greensboro, NC

Registered: 2004-07-26

Posts: 11

Boot Loader

I installed grub but now I get an error starting grub and I installed arch on hda2 and windows is hda1 and swap hda3 and the following is my grub file thing what do I need to change and how do I add windows? I read that installation guide but I still don't know what to do somebody please help.

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
#
# Old /dev DevFS Grub
# -----------------------------------------------
# /dev/fd0 /dev/floppy/0 (fd0)
# /dev/hda /dev/discs/disc0/disc (hd0)
# /dev/hdb2 /dev/discs/disc1/part2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/hda3 /dev/discs/disc0/part3 (hd0,2)
#

# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +----------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+-----------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
# 32K | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
# 64K | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
# 16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
# +----------------------------------------+

# general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc0/part2 ro

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wdemoss

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From: WV - USA

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 222

Re: Boot Loader

try

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root   (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/grub/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc0/part2 devfs=nomount vga=0x346 ro

title WinXP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

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agilley007

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From: Eden, Greensboro, NC

Registered: 2004-07-26

Posts: 11

Re: Boot Loader

This is the error I am getting

Grub Loading Stage1.5

Grub Loading Please Wait
Error 17

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xerxes2

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From: Malmoe, Sweden

Registered: 2004-04-23

Posts: 1,249

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Re: Boot Loader

strange, isn't Grub using stage 2 for pc's?

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agilley007

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From: Eden, Greensboro, NC

Registered: 2004-07-26

Posts: 11

Re: Boot Loader

Well anybody know what to do? This is the only distro where this happened.

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xerxes2

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From: Malmoe, Sweden

Registered: 2004-04-23

Posts: 1,249

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Re: Boot Loader

I've read a little in Grub manual,

it looks like it(sometimes?) use stage 1_5 to load stage 2

->1->1_5->2

I don't know why it can't find it...

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HaloGray

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Registered: 2004-09-01

Posts: 24

Re: Boot Loader

I installed grub but now I get an error starting grub and I installed arch on hda2 and windows is hda1 and swap hda3 and the following is my grub file thing what do I need to change and how do I add windows? I read that installation guide but I still don't know what to do somebody please help.

Are you talking different partitions or different drives?

My laptop has a single drive with different partitions.
Windows is the first, 2nd is the swap, and 3rd is Arch.  Here's my grub config:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc0/part3 ro

# (1) Windows 2000
title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Assuming you're using the 2nd partition for arch, yours should look like the above... the only difference I see is the devfs=nomount

If you're talking different hard drives though... then the root for arch linux should be :

root (hd1,0)

and not

root (hd0,1)

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