Am 10.09.2012 10:12, schrieb Jude DaShiell:
I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 target on the arch beginner's guide was for ufi not bios.
There is no x86_64 BIOS target. There never was. Unless you have EFI, your bootloader code will be i386 code (or worse, some 8086-compat code, but I am not an expert on this).
A bug like this in grub were I to write software for my employer would have me fired that same day. A software package can't keep track of its files it creates and it uses is a package with no self-defense capabilities.
I have no idea what you are trying to say, but it definitely doesn't belong here.
Sorry about that, but some of us started programming when the only thing creating webs were real spiders and web page developer was a job title that had yet to be created.
What are you trying to achieve with this post? It does not help solve your problem, it doesn't add anything technical to the discussion - actually, I don't know what you are trying to say here, and I don't care. If you want _any_ help here, please keep it objective and technical. Let me also express part of my personal opinion, which others might disagree with: If you wanted high quality software, why did you install GRUB? If you want a decent bootloader, use syslinux.