On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Curtis Shimamoto wrote:
On 09/09/12 at 11:15pm, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I am learning more about my hardware doing an archlinux installation on an amd k8 athelon system. Apparently grub won't work without use of blocklists and it complains that blocklists are unreliable so cannot embed and for that reason won't install. Fortunately another boot loader other than grub is available. I'll try that one later. Too late tonight to do it.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash
Are you trying to install to the mbr of a partition? If so, this error is expected.
See our amazing wiki here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#Install_to_Partition_or_Partition...
Regards, -- Curtis Shimamoto sugar.and.scruffy@gmail.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash 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. 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. 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.