[Solved]grub2 didnt install correctly suck at grub shell

I upgraded from grub to grub2 and now Im stuck at the grub shell.
I have tried this from my usb live install :
#root
#mount /dev/sda5 /mnt (sd5 is my root partition)
#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
# mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
# mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys
# mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
#chroot /mnt
#pacman -S grub2
#grub-mkconfig -0 /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I look like the upgrade didnt upgrade because when i reboot computer it says gnu grub version 0.97 which isnt grub2
Last edited by specialist125 (2010-06-17 02:51:56)

Let me give you the url to check: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub2
(You have to tell grub-install where you want to install grub.)

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1967
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[SOLVED]Unable to install grub "couldn't find /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst"

Ok so I was trying to install windows after I had arch installed, used an ubuntu cd to use gparted to create a partition, tried to go to the windows installation but it would endlessly send me back to restart the installation even after succesfully writting all files...
So now I decided to not install it, went back into ubuntu/gparted, deleted the partition and rejoined the space with my main arch partition and then selected the "boot" flag to boot...
Cannot boot, grub its still on /boot/ but the MBR its obviously tempered with by windows ( which coincidentally couldn't even find itself after writing mbr to its liking....*sigh* ).
So I try to use my arch install cd to reinstall grub but i get this:
"couldn't find /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst is grub installed?"
I tried to use the select packages thing to make sure the cd is mounted and mounts fine but it keeps getting me that error message. I managed to boot to my system just fine with arch root=/dev/sda1 but obviosly the kernell does not has my nvidia module which means I can't get into x which means i am using links and since my grub is not loaded i can't even get framebuffer so this is rather inconvenient.
Im sure im missing a very simple and stupid thing but im so annoyed my brain must be saying "ok im done somebody else figure it out". I still have a backup copy of my grub menu.lst I made before. Do I just delete /bood/grub/ and try again? Am I missing something on the install procedure to be able to rewrite grub? Can I just do it from the command line or with pacman? Any help appreciate it thanks.
Last edited by Misanthrope (2008-06-01 17:22:32)

If you can get into your arch and cli then you should just be able to reinstall grub with
install-grub /dev/sda
or reinstall grub with
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I have setup a multi-boot environment - Debian, Arch, Fedora and Win8
The Debian Grub2 is installed on the MBR. Fedora and Arch Grub2s are installed on the partitions. So I chainload the Arch grub from the Debian Grub with
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set root=(hd1,msdos9)
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total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 140 Apr 19 23:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 Apr 20 2013 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 19 23:57 arch -> ../../sdb9
This has been working for a long time. At some point I updated the Arch boot via a chroot. Along with updating the Debian install.
Now when I try boot the Arch install I get the message Error: no such partition after selecting the Arch Linux option from the Debian grub.
I am still able to chroot to /dev/sdb9 and perform system maintenance. I just can't boot into it.
This may also be important when run from the chroot environment
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Last edited by milomak (2013-04-30 22:41:14)

WonderWoofy wrote:You should still learn how to use your boot laoder correctly. You are really just asking for something to break, and eventually I can pretty much gaurantee that something will. If you learn how things work now, it will be much less painful when that day comes. Of course, if you learn how to do things now, and you set it up correctly, you also lower the risk of things breaking... so yeah.
i am using my bootloader the way that works for me
as long as the bios and grub have the disks in the sam eorder, the way grub currently works means there is no issue.
i have been running this kind of setup before grub2.
all that has happened here is that i mistook a grub issue for an arch issue. and because arch is a secondary distro, it did not matter to me how quickly the issue was solved.

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I installed arch on a new system. I have 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate. I installed arch skipped bootloader, chrooted into system and installed grub2 and installed. My system is btrfs. I do not have a seperate swap or home partition. OS-prober is installed. I have another system with btrfs and grub2 and all works fine. When I run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg I get this
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Last edited by quasifilmie (2012-03-30 23:59:43)

I'd just ask checking the grub.cfg file to see if the device id entries for arch in the grub menu are correct.
In my case, I use ubuntu's grub2 and each time I have to update grub for some reason, it wont get the partition right for the arch entry.
Last edited by debdj (2012-03-31 15:28:20)

[SOLVED] - grub2 hide/unhide

A mate has two win98 and one win95 on his first hard disk and a second hd for - ubuntu. To get M$ to see the correct C disk, grub legacy stanzas for any one of the win9x have always had to include two hide and one unhide command.
Ubuntu comes with grub2 and I thought I'd try super grub disk first and see whether I can boot all win9x - but no. SGD sees them but does not hide/unhide the relevant partitions so that it always boots the first win9x.
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PS.:
This is more of an exploratory/note taking thread with a view to a proper wiki entry if I succeed as there is nothing on google or the web out there that applies to grub2 CLI stuff.
Last edited by toad (2010-04-21 13:41:31)

Okay, this is solved, parttool did the trick on the grub CLI.
The following sequence hides the first two C disks and boots off the third - something super grub disk was not able to do automagically
parttool hd0,1 hidden+ boot-
parttool hd0,2 hidden+ boot-
parttool hd0,3 hidden- boot+
set root=hd0,3
chainloader +1
boot
EDIT:
WIKI entry
Last edited by toad (2010-04-21 13:55:05)

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