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

[Patrick Eigensatz]

Hi Steve

I'm not a grub expert, but I think the wiki [1] tells me you don't call
grub-install on a partition (sda1) but on a device (sda).


The grub-install command that should work would therefore be:

grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda1



[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB



- Patrick



Steve Downes <steve at kingswayelec.co.uk> schrieb am So., 2. Apr. 2017, 21:10:

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.

It is not a new laptop, it isn't UEFI.I installed by using a USB
installation key & following the Arch instructions through which
seemed OK until I reached install grup install. I thought all was
well.

The 1 hard disk was formatted as follows:-

/dev/sda split into:-
/dev/sda1  ext4 30gig to hold whole OS
/dev/swap
/dev/sda3  ext4 Approx 100G /homegrub

Install command was grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda1

I think that covers it.

Many thanks

Steve

On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 01:06:19PM +0000, Patrick Eigensatz via
arch-general wrote:
> Hello Steve
>
> 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?
>
>
> - Patrick
>
>
>
>
> Steve Downes <steve at kingswayelec.co.uk> schrieb am So., 2. Apr. 2017,
14:55:
> >
> > Can someone point me at what I've missed please:-
> >
> > I'm doing a new installation of archlinux & got as far as installing
> > grub apparently without problem. Installing grub gives:-
> >
> > Failed to get canonical path of `airootfs'
> >
> > This means nothing to me & I can't find anything. Could use some
> > guidance before I start again, or even better instead of starting
> > again.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >