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Well, I'm new to arch. I have it installed on a partition, and windows on another. I installed Grub first, then windows, and of course windows has to be dumb and kill Grub. So now I'm stuck with windows and that is no good.
I visited this wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reinstalling_GRUB to try and solve my problems, but in the end it just confused me.
I'm looking for help getting Grub up and Running. The output of "fdisk -l" shows me that /dev/sda1 is my linux partition, sda2 is my swap, and sda3 is windows xp.
Any help is appreciated, I'm looking forward to using Arch again.:lol:
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which part of the wiki article are you having trouble with exactly? It seems like a pretty step by step guide. Just use the install cd to chroot into your existing partition after mounting the various partitions. Then running grub-install should fix it?
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cd /
# If you are using a pre-0.7.1 CD, sda1 will be /dev/discs/disc0/part1
mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc
mount -t sysfs sys /mnt/sys
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
chroot /mnt /bin/bash
This part. Do I just type it in exactly like that or do I need to change things to fit my computer better?
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i think you shouldn't have to change it seeing as your linux partition is also in /dev/sda1. You might have to change the ext3 if you used a different filesystem type though.
Last edited by evr (2009-05-04 18:16:36)
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I can't remember what I used? How do I find out?
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um, i know cfdisk shows you the filesystem type, but i would assume you just made it ext3 if you don't remember making it specifically something else. You could just try mounting it and see if it works.
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Ok, Arch is up and running
Now I can't access windows... I added it to the menu.1st but it doesn't seem to work. Help?
E: When I edit the menu.1st file the only thing there is the windows thing. It doesn't show the boot info for arch
Last edited by itsme1 (2009-05-04 20:45:02)
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what happens when you try to access windows? Posting your menu.lst might help too.
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WEll I discovered I was editing the menu.1st file not the menu."L"st file. I'm such a noob. And when I boot up my computer and it comes to Grub, windows isn't an available option even though I edited the correct file this time.
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# (2) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Should be all you need for the windows entry.
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Ok, I got windows up and running too now. One more question. I have LXDE installed on ARCH. And being a linux noob I don't really get how to use it? How do I make ARCh boot in LXDE and not the terminal? How do I even start LXDE?
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the wiki is your friend.
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