On 09/10/12 at 04:20am, John Hutchison wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:29:22AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I have /dev/sda1 root, /dev/sda2 swap and /dev/sda3 /home. So this is not a single partition setup but a three partition setup if you count swap. Assume for this that /dev/sda is the bootloader _AND_ the device. As was said before: the first 512 bytes of the _hard drive device_ is the bootloader. (Assuming MBR)
Perhaps you could go a little more in depth on your install process, maybe tell us what exactly you are trying to do.
-- John Hutchison Programmieren und Informatik-Abteilung Feiern Sie 21 Jahre Linux! gplus.to/athetius
The link I provided clearly shows you how to install to the mbr of a partition. I used to have to do this with my Mac as not to ruin the windows partition (I think that is why I was doing that). So it is possible. Whether it is a wise thing to do is questionable. OP, I think if you just follow Arch's grub2 wiki, you probably would have seen your error and/or resolved any problem you may have had. Grub2 has this "bug" because it is not how it is intended to be used. Install it to /dev/sda like normal and you should be fine. -- Curtis Shimamoto sugar.and.scruffy@gmail.com