[arch-general] problems on installing grub on a new system

[Steve Downes]

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:
> > 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.
> 
> > Steve Downes <steve at kingswayelec.co.uk> schrieb am So., 2. Apr. 2017, 14:55:
> > > 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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