On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 15:20:09 +0200, David Runge wrote:

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Steve Downes schrieb am So., 2. Apr. 2017, 14:55:

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Failed to get canonical path of `airootfs' I get the feeling you might have been installing to your installation media, if it was a usb stick.

Make sure you're installing to the correct device, by having a look at:

`ls -lah /dev/disk/by-id`

Hi, there are several possible reasons to get this error. One reason could be installing grub, if you try it from a Linux running in a systemd-nspawn container. IOW also mention from where you try to install grub. Btw. a while back I migrated from grub to syslinux for my Linux multi-boot machine, this means no Windows, no FreeBSD, no UEFI or anything else, just several Linux installs. FWIW I'm still using MBR. I like syslinux much better than grub, but it might not fit to the taste of everybody. Regards, Ralf

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. I send separately to you a photo of the output of ls -lah /dev/disk/by-id` My apologies to you & the list but I could think of no other way. I can find no reason to believe I was writing to the usb & I was aware of the risk of doing that when I tried to write grub to sda1 Mant thanks for your help. Steve On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 03:20:09PM +0200, David Runge wrote:

Hey Steve,

On 2017-04-02 13:06:19 (+0000), Patrick Eigensatz via arch-general wrote:

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Can you point out how you configured your system? (How many disks, how they are partitioned)

Do you install grub on an UEFI system? What was the grub-install command you used? Yes, please, all of that.

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Steve Downes schrieb am So., 2. Apr. 2017, 14:55:

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Failed to get canonical path of `airootfs' I get the feeling you might have been installing to your installation media, if it was a usb stick.

Make sure you're installing to the correct device, by having a look at:

`ls -lah /dev/disk/by-id`

Best, David

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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 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 schrieb am So., 2. Apr. 2017, 14:55:

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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

Are you sure that system isn't UEFI? also are you doing that in chrooted? Step by step :) 2017/04/08 午後1:28 "David C. Rankin" :

On 04/02/2017 02:25 PM, Patrick Eigensatz via arch-general wrote:

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The grub-install command that should work would therefore be:

grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda1

Umm

# grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda

(note: NO '1' at end)

-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

On 04/07/2017 11:39 PM, Dragon ryu via arch-general wrote:

2017/04/08 午後1:38 "Dragon ryu" :

Are you sure that system isn't UEFI? also are you doing that in chrooted? Step by step :)

2017/04/08 午後1:28 "David C. Rankin" :

No, I was basing the correct on the quoted material at the top of the post, if it is UEFI, by all means install to the partition, my bad. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 20:10:42 +0100, Steve Downes wrote:

I don't know what happened to my previous reply, I never got a copy

You could check the archive. https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2017-April/date.html Until now your original message didn't come through. You tried to install grub within an "arch-chroot"? Regards, Ralf