Arch Linux

cavveman

Member

Registered: 2009-11-20

Posts: 7

GRUB wont load

Hi, I've installed Windows 7 today and I discovered that grub wasn't working, so I performed a reinstall of archlinux and grub, but nothing happens after that the installation completes. For the moment i'm using a ubuntu livecd. I wanted to se if there was wrong with the grub file, but nothing there
As you can see i have not even made windows 7 active. But grub wont show up and windows 7 boots up instead of grub.

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/9e9ddff9-cbdd-4738-992b-eda01f1082c0 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/9e9ddff9-cbdd-4738-992b-eda01f1082c0 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

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

Mardoct

Member

Registered: 2009-08-17

Posts: 208

Re: GRUB wont load

Was grub installed to the MBR on the first hard disk? If you don't know, probably not. That's usually hda .

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sharpie

Member

From: Phoenix, AZ

Registered: 2008-11-16

Posts: 72

Re: GRUB wont load

Sounds to me like you didn't install GRUB to the MBR of the drive.  Mardoct is right, it'll be hda or sda, depending on the type of drive you have and saying that that's the drive you're installing on.