[arch-general] Arch install scripts : feedback and questions.
Hello. Just done an install using arch-install-scripts, and it wasn't so bad. The only bad thing is that grub2 is not available. I busted my installed system trying to install grub 2.0rc1 (wrong UUID in grub.cfg file). I finally installed syslinux while trying to understand what happened. So, great tools, not really that hard to use. Here are my questions : 1) Any hope to get grub2 as default grub in a future version ? 2) What about GPT tools ? 3) What about tweaking /etc/rc.conf before first reboot ? Thanks for your kind answers. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies@gmail.com
To answer your question about installing GRUB2 by default using install scripts, GRUB2 is now maintained incore, and legacy GRUB has been moved to AUR. Therefore, by the next official iso release, GRUB2 should be a part of the official install, and the install scripts will be updated to support it. As for tweaking /etc/rc.conf, you should be able to do this manually from within your install chroot before rebooting. Hope this helps. ~Kyle -- Kyle is a droid. The whole world knows it. This e-mail shows it.
2012/7/18 Kyle <kyle@gmx.ca>:
To answer your question about installing GRUB2 by default using install scripts, GRUB2 is now maintained >incore, and legacy GRUB has been moved to AUR. Therefore, by the next official iso release, GRUB2 should >be a part of the official install, and the install scripts will be updated to support it.
Ok. Because I'm very unlucky installing grub2 after an installation.
As for tweaking /etc/rc.conf, you should be able to do this manually from within your install chroot before >rebooting. Hope this helps. ~Kyle
I've done that. Could be added in wiki. Agree or not ? Wiki page is well designed :) -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies@gmail.com
I need to take a look at the wiki. I'm currently doing everything on a phone, because my computer is dead and needs to be rebuilt. However, the Arch wiki has been my main source of Arch and general Linux related documentation for some time now. I do agree that the wiki page for the install scripts, if it doesn't already, should mention manually editing /etc/rc.conf in the installed system before rebooting. The file is quite well documented, as is all of Arch, so I don't think any kind of script needs to exist for tweaking it. However, the install scripts wiki page, as well as any installation guides related to using install scripts to install an Arch system should show /etc/rc.conf some love. ~Kyle -- Kyle is a droid. The whole world knows it. This e-mail shows it.
Am 18.07.2012 18:30, schrieb fredbezies:
Hello.
Just done an install using arch-install-scripts, and it wasn't so bad. The only bad thing is that grub2 is not available. I busted my installed system trying to install grub 2.0rc1 (wrong UUID in grub.cfg file). I finally installed syslinux while trying to understand what happened.
So, great tools, not really that hard to use. Here are my questions :
1) Any hope to get grub2 as default grub in a future version ? 2) What about GPT tools ? 3) What about tweaking /etc/rc.conf before first reboot ?
Thanks for your kind answers.
grub 2 is currently in testing. Once this moves to core and grub1 will get removed from the repo we will include it for the next iso. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
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grub 2 is currently in testing. Once this moves to core and grub1 will get removed from the repo we will include it for the next iso.
Great. Because installing grub2 by hand is kinda hellish. It is why I used archboot on my last real install :) -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies@gmail.com
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:44 PM, fredbezies <fredbezies@gmail.com> wrote:
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grub 2 is currently in testing. Once this moves to core and grub1 will get removed from the repo we will include it for the next iso.
Great. Because installing grub2 by hand is kinda hellish. It is why I used archboot on my last real install :)
IIRC you don't [normally] need to do much more than edit /etc/default/grub (if desired), followed by: # grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX ... repeat if using RAID ... # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg ... unless you have an unusual setup. the above works fine for all my machines (note: none are EFI, not sure about those) .. pretty easy IMO :-) -- C Anthony
2012/7/18 C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xtfx.me>:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:44 PM, fredbezies <fredbezies@gmail.com> wrote:
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grub 2 is currently in testing. Once this moves to core and grub1 will get removed from the repo we will include it for the next iso.
Great. Because installing grub2 by hand is kinda hellish. It is why I used archboot on my last real install :)
IIRC you don't [normally] need to do much more than edit /etc/default/grub (if desired), followed by:
# grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX ... repeat if using RAID ... # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
... unless you have an unusual setup. the above works fine for all my machines (note: none are EFI, not sure about those) .. pretty easy IMO :-)
Yes, but sometimes UUID are not copied or badly copied. Maybe I'm unlucky ?! -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies@gmail.com
Oops, sorry for the current misinformation. I didn't realize that GRUB2 was still in testing and hadn't yet been moved to core. I've been keeping up with the list, but my Arch box is currently dead, and won't be revived until I can rebuild it. I somehow thought that the package had been moved already. ~Kyle -- Kyle is a droid. The whole world knows it. This e-mail shows it.
On 07/18/2012 07:30 PM, fredbezies wrote:
Hello.
Just done an install using arch-install-scripts, and it wasn't so bad. The only bad thing is that grub2 is not available. I busted my installed system trying to install grub 2.0rc1 (wrong UUID in grub.cfg file). I finally installed syslinux while trying to understand what happened.
So, great tools, not really that hard to use. Here are my questions :
1) Any hope to get grub2 as default grub in a future version ? 2) What about GPT tools ? 3) What about tweaking /etc/rc.conf before first reboot ?
Thanks for your kind answers.
For 3) I don't see any reason why not to tweak it before reboot.
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Axilleas Pi
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C Anthony Risinger
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fredbezies
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Kyle
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Pierre Schmitz