Hello Steve
Can you point out how you configured your system? (How many disks, how
Hi Steve I'm not a grub expert, but I think the wiki [1] tells me you don't call grub-install on a partition (sda1) but on a device (sda). The grub-install command that should work would therefore be: grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda1 [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB - Patrick Steve Downes <steve@kingswayelec.co.uk> schrieb am So., 2. Apr. 2017, 21:10: I don't know what happened to my previous reply, I never got a copy (It was witten on my tablet because I was working in the house). Here is an approx copy. It is not a new laptop, it isn't UEFI.I installed by using a USB installation key & following the Arch instructions through which seemed OK until I reached install grup install. I thought all was well. The 1 hard disk was formatted as follows:- /dev/sda split into:- /dev/sda1 ext4 30gig to hold whole OS /dev/swap /dev/sda3 ext4 Approx 100G /homegrub Install command was grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda1 I think that covers it. Many thanks Steve On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 01:06:19PM +0000, Patrick Eigensatz via arch-general wrote: they
are partitioned)
Do you install grub on an UEFI system? What was the grub-install command you used?
- Patrick
Steve Downes <steve@kingswayelec.co.uk> schrieb am So., 2. Apr. 2017, 14:55:
Can someone point me at what I've missed please:-
I'm doing a new installation of archlinux & got as far as installing grub apparently without problem. Installing grub gives:-
Failed to get canonical path of `airootfs'
This means nothing to me & I can't find anything. Could use some guidance before I start again, or even better instead of starting again.
Steve