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I ran the Arch Installer today, and everything went great. Until I hit grub. I have to install grub to /dev/sda4 on my triboot Win7,Mac and soon to be Arch install. I need help putting grub on through some other method. Help would be greatly appreciated
Last edited by duke11235 (2010-08-22 18:52:25)
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If you do want some help from the community, you will need to supply some information: what went wrong? what does your partition table look like? etc...
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@op - unless you're using another bootloader, you'll need to install grub to your mbr (/dev/sda) not to a partition on that drive. For tribooting, simply add an enter for windows and macos via a chainloader statement in your /boot/grub/menu.lst and you're done. Read the wiki article jackH79 posted for you and you should be able to do this no problem.
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I guess I was too specific. I need to install grub to partition 4 of my 5 partition Mac triboot system under the GUID partition table. This is the same setup I used for Fedora 13 before Arch. REFIT handles the selection of operating system upon start up, but needs grub to handle secondary linux booting. I got all the way through installation, including formatting configuring the text files, etc.
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *320.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Mac 197.9 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 80.0 GB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 90.8 MB disk0s4 //ext4 /boot formatted
5: Microsoft Basic Data 41.8 GB disk0s5 // Linux LVM encrypted
Basically, I was looking for guidance on installing Grub stage 1 and 2 from the Arch install cd. The grub wiki is a little vague. Do I need chroot? How would I go about this, as I have never had to do this before.
Last edited by duke11235 (2010-08-22 17:05:20)
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You can put grub on any partition you like from the arch installation menu. Manually installing grub from the live cd is very easy, and the wiki is pretty clear about it - invoke grub shell, set root (where your grub binaries are) and then "setup" into the partition you want.
P.S.: I would first make sure you have the grub files (from the package) in the right place, and then use the find command in grub shell to be sure you are not screwing up anything.
Last edited by hokasch (2010-08-22 17:52:11)
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NVM Solved it. Thank You for your help
Last edited by duke11235 (2010-08-22 18:51:38)
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Sorry, but this was a really stupid mistake on my part. I just needed to mount /boot, use the root command in grub before setup, and everything went fine. I didn't bother detailing because I didn't feel there was an issue, and was due to a simple error and was covered extensively on the wiki.
Last edited by duke11235 (2010-08-24 05:05:04)
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... and was covered extensively on the wiki.
Sorry mate, but judging from your previous posts here, you might wanna start consulting the wiki and google before you start posting here.
Examples: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103383, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103447, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103366
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