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

Daniel Wallace daniel.wallace at gatech.edu
Wed Aug 8 23:11:01 EDT 2012


On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:14:08PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 08/07/2012 06:51 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Hmm...,
> 
>   I don't know if that bothered grub2. I used cfdisk, and then installed grub2.
> I don't recall a specific error about sectors. For some reason, I think I recall
> having to run grub-install more than once. What error would you expect if that
> was causing a problem?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

better to use fdisk, gdisk, or parted for partitioning
-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology
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