In fact, in the partition table I have referenced above, the partition preceding the Ubuntu / partition, has a "bios_grub" flag set, and it is about 1 MB in length. On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
This is an interesting suggestion:
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Delcypher <delcypher@gmail.com> wrote:
dy installed Ubuntu successfully you probably have a working boot manager from that install. So why not just use that to boot into Arch Linux? I think Ubuntu uses GRUB2 so you can have Ubuntu regenerate the menu entries and hopefully it would detect Arch Linux on its own. If not you'll have to look up how to add the menu entries manually.
I tried several times, without any change to the boot menu. The SDD device (perhaps a specific part) and also a "windows boot manager" are items in a menu when rebooting with Advanced Startup from Windows.
The steps I used were:
- Ran grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg - changed the permissions of that file to +w - re-ran grub-mkconfig
Each time I ran this, it saw the Arch partition. And each time I booted, this was not found in the grub menu at boot time. It was shown as a grub 2.x ...
I am reluctant to try to reinstall grub2 as I don't know how it was installed before. Maybe there is a clue in the partition table.
Alan