Arch Linux

trey

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From: Alpharetta, GA

Registered: 2003-10-18

Posts: 73

No boot loader

I installed arch on a second hard drive configured as a slave.  I was going to access it in a multiboot environment, so I didn't install a bootloader thinking that I could use a bootmanager like GAG to access Arch.  However, this must have been a mistake as when I point GAG to the Arch partition, which it sees, I get an error stating 'Sector boot not found or invalid'

Is there a way, without doing a reinstall, that I can put a bootloader on the Arch's root partition on the 2nd drive?

Thanks.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: No boot loader

What boot manager are you using currently? If it's grub or lilo, you can edit the relevant config file so you get a boot menu at start up.

Otherwise, boot up using a Live CD (Knoppix etc) chroot into the Arch filesystem, and use pacman to install grub (recommended) or lilo, on dev/hdb1 - that's assuming that Arch is the first partition on the second hard drive.

trey

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From: Alpharetta, GA

Registered: 2003-10-18

Posts: 73

Re: No boot loader

Well, after the trouble I had with other distros I installed on this drive as well, I ended up just doing fresh installs.

Thanks for the reply.

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: No boot loader

You could replace GAG by LILO or Grub to load both OS'es (on at a time obviously ). I think that's easiest.

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