[arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference

[Jude DaShiell]

Another problem documented is that cfdisk makes a system incompatible 
for grub2 installation since grub2 expects everything to start at sector 
2048 and cfdisk starts everything at sector 63.

On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Mauro Santos wrote:

> On 06-08-2012 23:20, David C. Rankin wrote:
> 
> > I noticed that too. Also, if you just follow the beginners guide without using
> > the grub2 page, you end up installing grub2 wrong because the beginners guide
> > omits the --target flag for grub-install. There should be links to:
> > 
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub2#Install_to_440-byte_MBR_boot_code_region
> > 
> > for the most common install. Instead the beginners_guide just says to:
> > 
> >   grub-install /dev/sda
> > 
> > which according to the grub2 wiki will result in the grub2 error on:
> > 
> > "source_dir doesn't exist"
> 
> After reading the wiki and the man page I did use only 'grub-install
> /dev/sda' and it worked without any problems for the 3 systems that I
> have converted to use grub2.
> 
> As I see it --target should not be needed if grub is going to run from
> the same machine/architecture it was installed with. The man page says:
> 
> --target=TARGET
> install GRUB for TARGET platform [default=current]
> 
> If grub can't decide correctly on what is the current platform, it
> sounds like a bug with grub and it should be reported upstream so it can
> be fixed.
> 
> 

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