Arch Linux

HighD

Member

From: Costa Rica

Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 31

Grub Not Installing.

Hello everyone!

Well, I have been an avid Arch Linux fanatic since I first discovered it, I recently went back to Ubuntu found it just isn't for me. I want more...that's why I'm again installing Arch.

The problem is with grub....it seems it's not getting installed. I have the following partition scheme

sda

sda1 : windows
sda2 : documents
sda5 : /
sda6 : swap

I installed grub to sda using the /arch/setup installer but my computer boots straight into windows. No grub screen.

I researched prior to posting which resulted in various solutions which have not been successful.

I tried using " Install Grub to hd0 MBR " (or something like it) from the Arch Live CD. It returned

Booting 'Install GRUB to hd0 MBR'

root (hd0,0) 
 Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7

setup (hd0)
 Error 07: Cannot mount selected partition

Press any key to continue

I'm able to login as root using the arch live cd and mount / using:

mount /dev/sda5 -t auto /mnt

And I'm able to see the menu.lst  I edited fist while installing arch the first time

BUT whenever i try to invoke the grub command and do any of the following

root (hd0,4)
setup (hd0)

I get

Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x6

and something saying it can't mount the partition.

What could this be? How can I make grub recognize my filesystem types? Must I rebuild my partition table? If I must, how?

Thanks in advance for the answers. I appreciate it.

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Mektub

Member

From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: Grub Not Installing.

HighD,

Using the livecd, can you please post the output of

fdisk -l

Mektub

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