Am Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:50:18 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
BTW: booting with archlinux-2009.01-beta2-core-i686.iso in this machine that installed arch64 and executing:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt grub-install --no-floppy --recheck --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
works OK, and grub is now installed.
Is the only difference the --no-floppy switch?
--no-floppy doesn't make a difference - also not on virtualbox. It only don't probe for a floppy drive. I've made since Christmas 2008 about 30 installations with our different private/alpha/beta isos, on virtualbox/qemu and real machines. I never run into a problem installing the bootloader. Without ext4 patch and how we called grub installation in the old installer - that leads to many problems booting such a system. But installing grub should not be that probems we get here since a few days. I only (could) test i686. Will you try if you could reproduce this behavior with the x86_64 iso from which you done your install? Gerhard