Grub error 15

Hello,
I did a fresh install of Arch with XFCE4. I got GRUB error 15. Their have been several threads with possible solutions. As a noob i don't know how to start. I did a clean install this morning and after full installation i stumbled into same problem. No matter what i change i Grub line i get same error. I have tried to change kernel package name suggested here http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-t … filenames/
This is how i setup my system.
sda5 /home
sda6 swap
sda7 /boot
sda8 /
Grub
root (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda8 ro
Please help,
Thanks.
Last edited by donniezazen (2011-10-08 22:04:39)

per misc post on the forums this issue is due to performing a full system upgrade after a cd based install. the system is upgrading multiple packages and according to the bug reports it is an issue with the mkinitpcio package.. when it attempts to create the kernel image and mount proc properly. the bug report is now closed and the fix is still not clear to me personally.. has anyone been able to successfully create the new kernel image before exiting the live cd?

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Why i can't to repair the Grub Error 15?

Hi.
Unfortunely, Arch Linux don't work for me.
I tried to fix the Grub Error 15, without success.
I have two hard disks, one installed in /dev/sda (with Ubuntu)
the other in /dev/sdb and it is where I want to install Arch.
As I do not want complications, simply i assigned /dev/sdb1 to "/" and /dev/sdb5 to swap. /home /boot /etc and other directories are in the same partition as /.
The kernel are in the /boot directory, the files are /boot/vmlinuz26 and /boot/initrd.img (i don't remember the exact name of this last .img file)
My menu.lst are as following
default 0
timeout 3
title Arch Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd26.img
However, always shows me the Grub Error 15 (File not found).
I enter to the Grub command line
grub > root (hd1,0)
Filesystem is ext3, partition type 0x83
grub > setup (hd1)
Checking if '/boot/grub/stage1' exists... yes
Other checkings (I don't remember which now) also passed and exists (they say "Checking if 'file' exists..... yes").
But when I boot from the second hard disk, the boot fails and the damn grub error 15 appears.
Nothing and none of the tutorials that I found in Google works.
What i'm doing bad?
Thanks!
EDIT:
Here is a summary of check with efsck, to discard failures on the disk, however, had many attempts with error when reading certain blocks like this
Error reading block 2163066 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) when getting the next node -i to examine
¿Ignore error? Yes
¿Force rewrite? Yes
Summary:
36215 inodes used (0.76%)
38 non-contiguous inodes (0.1%)
# of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 1173/8/0
471916 blocks used (2.48%)
0 bad blocks
1 large file
30943 regular files
3551 directories
3 character device files
0 block device files
0 fifos
1469 links
1709 symbolic links (1709 fast symbolic links)
0 sockets
37675 files
Last edited by El-Dani (2009-02-21 03:49:55)

I typed these commands in grub command line
root (hd1,0)
setup (hd0)
... and then?
I not understand why appears the same error. Mi menu lst is here
title Arch Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb1 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
vmlinux26 and kernel26.img exists in /boot directory. I want to boot from first partition of second hard disk, which are sdb1.
Are there other way to boot Arch? (which is installed in the second hard disk, in sdb1)... maybe editing the grub using to boot Ubuntu? (Ubuntu is installed in sda1)
Is valid simply adding the lines of my menu.lst described above and paste it in menu.lst of Ubuntu?
I boot Ubuntu normally from first disk, first partition. Here is the menu.lst of the disk installed with Ubuntu
title Ubuntu 8.04.2, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=5b72d0b0-af94-4e37-ba6b-13008ce75e31 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
As you can see, Ubuntu is in the partition /dev/sda1 (hd0,0). Can I simply adding the arch lines to this menu.lst, and boot from first disk as normally i do? I want to select booting Ubuntu or Arch.

[SOLVED] Grub Error "Read or write outside of disk hd0"

Trying to install Arch Linux (as per client request) on an old Seagate Mirra Personal Server. I reflashed the bios to get rid of the Seagate modified ROM and put the standard, stock, VIA bios image on there. Everything boots fine, it boots windows fine. But when I install Arch Linux on the drive and try to boot, it errors out with
Booting...
GRUB Loading.
Welcome to GRUB!
error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>
When I ran grub-install and grub-mkconfig during installation neither reported errors or warnings. I'm open to ideas but I need to fix this sooner rather later as this is for a client. A forum thread I found in regards to Ubuntu and grub error 18 said to run:
apt-get remove linux-server
apt-get install linux-386
under Ubuntu and then it would boot. I know Arch removed i386 support a few months ago but im finding it hard to believe that the error above is because of an architecture mismatch. Also I didnt think the CPU in this thing was that old. Hardware Info from the arch live cd says
CPU Vendor: Centaur
CPU Model: VIA Nehemiah
1 core, 64k L2 Cache, 32bit
the Mirra is from 2007 or so, so I expected i686 Arch to be just fine for it.
Ideas???
EDIT:
Wikipedia's Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_C3
States: "Additionally, it implemented the cmov instruction, making it a 686-class processor"
So it shouldn't be an issue of i386 vs i686, right?
Last edited by FathisAeril (2013-04-26 21:46:11)

Good morning to all of You.
Sorry for posting in a [SOLVED] thread but I find the info that I am about to add relevant and I am betting my vital organs that someone else might find it interesting too.
I did an upgrade last night on my Thinkpad 600E. I was not upgrading it for several days (2 weeks tops) as I lost my USB wifi card and had no internet access on this particular machine. So...
As always before upgrade I checked my rss reader for news and sure enough there was a very informative post from Allan (thanks Dude btw.) in there:
https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries … ervention/
I did as I was told and upgraded in the indicated way. All was peachy till I rebooted to get new kernel to load. I was met with the mentioned error:
error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'.
but the second part was slightly different.
Error: You need to load kernel first
SO since the error was different why am I posting here? Because even after Googling the whole error message this post was the first to come up in my search results so I am betting others will get here as well.
Solution? After an hour or so of fighting (I tried booting up from the Arch CD and fscking partitions, reinstalling / reconfiguring grub, downgrading grub-bios and grub-common packages and many many other things) I finally rebooted to the Arch cd, chrooted (for all those that do not know what that means I would like to recommend this link as chrooting is explained in it https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … %27_Guide) to the installation and I have reinstalled the linux (kernel) package and redid the image with the:
mkinitcpio -p linux
and rebooted. Turns out that did the trick. Apparently something went wrong during the kernel upgrade. Possibly due to the changes explained in Allan's article. Reinstalling kernel / recreating image did the trick for me.
So if You are still wondering what am I doing here and why am I replying in this thread - the answer is - 99% search results from Google suggests that this error means incompatibility between bios and the hard drive AND there is nothing really out there that I found helpful in this case. I mean it could not be a bios / hdd incompatibility. This drive has been used in this machine for few years and it was running Arch since November 2012... so this just could not be the case. I am just giving a shout to all those that will get this error that there is another option too.
Kind regards. Thanks for reading. My apologies again for sticking my nose in.
Andrzej
Edit: Few months later the same error - fix does not work... Trying to figure it out...
Last edited by AndrzejL (2013-10-19 02:43:15)

[Solved] Grub error when booting...

Today I decided to try out Archlinux everything worked fine until the reboot.. Grub doesn't seem to work as intended, grub just kept posting:
GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB
nothing but "GRUB" came up.
My menu.lst:
default 0
timeout 3
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=773
initrd /kernel26.img
Title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=773
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
version: 0.8beta2
I haven't found any threads about it, if there's any i'm sorry for bringing up a new one.
any suggests?
Last edited by Neko-san (2007-03-12 19:16:41)

SleepingGiant08 wrote:see this http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml
scroll down to Error 7...
oohh.. there it is, I guess I didn't look enough thanks tho :)
vacant wrote:
GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB
Maybe you should start a poll "Vote for the most useless linux error message" ;)
True, not that good error message ^^
This is how I did it:
boot: arch root=/dev/sda3
grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit
reboot
Last edited by Neko-san (2007-03-12 20:33:30)

Grub Error 18

Hi All,
After a bit of advice from the community about the above error. I have done research and Error 18 is:- Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS, which is fair enough.
I have a 160GB IDE HDD installed and I have partitioned it like this: -
SDA1 512MB Swap
SDA2 59.5GB /
SDA3 100GB /Home
(the figures are rounded up)
Grub is installed to the MBR of SDA.
Now in order to resolve this I need to create a /boot partition before the swap partition of say 30-50MB. How do I do this? Do I rerun the Arch setup and delete all my partitions and then do the complete net core install again, or can I run cfdisk or fdisk from the command prompt after booting the arch setup disk and change the partitions there? If I do the latter, will this effect the Arch install?
Cheers
EmyrB

OK, here is an update... ahem... I tried what was suggested and added a /boot partition, but it was still coming up with a grub 18 error. Frustrated with it all I installed Pardus on the same PC and it worked. So I then stumbled upon the idea that I could have a dual boot PC, with Pardus and Arch.
However, after the install I still had the same grub error 18. So I rebooted and went into the BIOS and this is when I noticed that the QDI logo has never showed up on boot up. I switched it on (makes it much easier to get into the BIOS, so you don't have to keep pressing the delete key like a demented idiot while looking at a black screen) and I rebooted the PC and lo and behold it worked, Grub was happily showing both Pardus and Arch. So, I then wiped my HDD and installed just Arch (sorry Pardus devs) and it to worked. So whatever the QDI logo does, it makes grub very unhappy.
Anyway, I installed Gnome 2.24.1 but now I cannot shut the PC down. If I select Shutdown, nothing happens, but if I then select logout the PC shuts down. Is there and issue with Policykit on Gnome 2.24 as I had the same issues with both Ubuntu 8.10 Beta and Zenwalk Gnome 5.2 all using Gnome 2.24?
Cheers
EmyrB

[SOLVED] Grub Error 17 and other not so fun stuff

Booted today and greeted by grub error 17.
I booted from Arch Live CD
fdisk -l
looks ok
fdisk /dev/sdb
x,f,w nothing done, proper order
ok, let's chroot my install and install grub
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
unknown filesystem type, doh
mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /mnt
nope
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail
dmesg | tail
attempt to access beyond end of device
sdb1: rw=0, want=4, limit=2
EXT4-fs: unable to read superblock
attempt to access beyond end of device
sdb1: rw=0, want=4, limit=2
EXT4-fs: unable to read superblock
time to fsck ?
Last edited by bloodniece (2009-10-04 15:11:12)

bloodniece wrote:
I fixed it thanks to testdisk.
When I initially set this install of Arch up I used a whole disk in 2 partitions: / and swap. A grub error 17 led me to believe the partition table was fuxored. Fdisk did not fix the partition table but it was reporting the root partition as extended, which would not boot and is NOT how I set the system up. If had been up for about 10 months and working fine. I was able to use testdisk in a livecd session to both backup my home and etc directories and fix the partition table.
I'm marking this issue fixed. But I'm still confused as to what the hell happened. Unclean shutdown?
I'm getting contantly ERROR 17...
I dunno how to fix, I simply reboot some times and it desapears..
If someone could give me a clue..
Thx guyz!

[SOLVED] GRUB: Error 15: File not found

I've used the beginners guide to install Arch on my laptop and everything went smooth untill I rebooted and ended up with GRUB error 15. I've seen some other people having trouble with this one but neither of the solutions that worked (or didn't work) for them have worked out for me. I will try to provide you with as much information as possible:
I get to the GRUB menu and get the error after choosing 'Arch Linux' from it.
menu.lst
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/0b899428... ro vga=773
initrd /kernel26.img
The only thing I've changed in menu.lst is that I've added vga=773. I left out the rest of the UUID because I'm writing it of my laptop beside me.
fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104422 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 144 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 145 1101 7687102+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 1102 9729 69304410 83 Linux
blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="1afac34a-..." TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda2: TYPE="swap" UUID="abd14101-..."
/dev/sda3: UUID="0b899428-..." TYPE="jfs"
/dev/sda4: UUID="3b33ca9f-..." TYPE="jfs"
I've also tried poking around in the GRUB console:
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst "... succeeded
Done.
Any help would be much appreciated and I'll gladly provide you guys with any other information if necessary.
EDIT: Solved through re-installing.
Last edited by zulustar (2009-09-13 20:20:57)

I moved the boot parition to hdd sda, but doing so I had to reinstall everything, and it seemed to fix it. I also found that one of the sata cables had been knocked out, but I don't think that was the orginal fault.
ibendiben wrote:
fumbles wrote:
timeout 5
default 1
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
#(0) Arch
title Arch Linux
root (hd2,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/blah(aka sda1) ro vga=795
initrd /kernel26.img
I wonder why you have "default 1". If you want to boot Archlinux (above) as default you should use "default 0", or has something changed lately?
Also:
root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/blah(aka sda1)
that doesn't seem to be very valid. You need to fill it in.
/edit
Ofcourse you used blah(aka sda1) just here, not in the real file... sorry for the unhelpfull post
The default was a typo, as I could not boot into anything except the Arch CD I had to type it in manually. Although thanks for the reply anyways.
kgas wrote:
Hello fumbles, As you have a separate /boot partition, the grub entry is not correct, I believe. if should be /boot/vmlinuz For more help this link may also help you.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operati … 72531.html
This is simply not true. The reverse however is. I did NOT have a seperate boot parition, ie boot was just in the root partition then yes I would have to add /boot to the kernel and initrd lines.
Last edited by fumbles (2009-01-08 04:32:07)

[Solved] Arch Linux won't boot, GRUB error 15

Recently I did a system upgrade with "pacman -Syu". There wasn't many updates i only saw a kernel upgrade to 3.0.1 (something like that), the update was complete and I decieded before I restarted my system i would install LibreOffice, there was another error, with that installation. There was some error with redline and raptor (I'm not 100% on the names but i know they both start with R and it was two of them). Any way it was somewhere along the lines of "redline: /usr/.... : already exists in the filesystem".
So before I continued I figured screw it, I'll restart my system and figure out what's wrong later. So I reboot, and can't get back in -_-* great. So now I have the GRUB error 15 the prompt tells me press any key to continue... and now I can only boot into my windows partition. What can I do from here? I don't want to reinstall arch, only as a last resort.
Last edited by mastrgamr (2011-08-08 03:25:09)

not sure what you're saying ... grub was working fine before if that's what you're asking, I've had the distro on my system for about a week before today.
to be honest I'm not even sure what is a custom kernel, from day one I just did a "pacman -S linux linux-headers", which replaced kernel26 and it's headers and from there I was golden, until today.
P.S I'm sure it was this update that did it (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/)

[SOLVED] - Grub Error 15 on Fresh Install

I've created a Boot CD from the archlinux-2011.08.19-core-i686.iso and booted from the CD.
I've used both Autoconfig and Manual to set up my 4 Gig USB Flash Drive - /dev/sdb
BOOT - /dev/sdb1: UUID="467fc66a-6c36-48ab-a7f3-69f449407927" TYPE="ext2" Size=1003.53 Meg
SWAP - /dev/sdb2: UUID="f83191f6-cdf3-4647-80e2-86ac73063725" TYPE="swap" Size=259.75 Meg
/dev/sdb3: UUID="fc7e8565-6668-4370-bb32-33d2d89ee28e" TYPE="ext2" Size=2.02 Gig
/dev/sdb4: UUID="00055f18-3e0a-48b8-a9c5-5593aacc2bee" TYPE="ext2" Size=676.91 Meg
unallocated 1.68 Meg
Disk /dev/sdb: 4206 MB, 4206886912 bytes
130 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8060 * 512 = 4126720 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00002773
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 255 1027619 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 256 321 265980 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3 322 847 2119780 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 848 1019 693160 83 Linux
No matter how I prepare the USB Flash Drive I get the Grub Error message as follows:
Booting Arch Linux
Root (HD1,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, Partition Type 0x83
Kernel /vmlinux-linux root-/dev/disk/by-uuid/xxx-xxxx-xxx-xxx ro
ERROR 15: File not Found
In Grub I've tried:
root (HD
and HD0, HD1 are the Options. HD1 is my USB Flash Drive (sdb)
find /boot/grub/stage1 finds nothing.............
I'd think that stage1 would be found if Grub was installed properly.
I've tried EXT2, EXT3, and the following sizes....Boot as 100 Meg, Root as 1800 Meg, Swap as 256 Meg, and Home = Remainder (~1800).
I've searched this Forum and haven't found any answer that makes my USB Flash Drive Boot. At this point I'm stuck.
Is there something I'm overlooking?
Thanks.
Larry
Last edited by lkraemer (2012-02-21 15:17:21)

Thanks, DSpyder I already had it as hd0,0. I found the clue here to get my USB Booting.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … _a_USB_key
I used /dev/sdbx versus the UUID, and edited the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, add the usb hook to the hooks array right after udev.
Larry

[SOLVED] Upgrade hard drive: Grub error 22: Partition not found

I'm trying to move to a different hard drive. I booted a live cd, created the partitions, formatted, and used "cp -a" to copy all the files over. I also updated the fstab on the new drive, and now I would expect everything to work. However, I can't get past grub.
When I boot up, I get "grub error 22: partition not found".
Here is my setup ("Arch Linux - SSD" is the entry not working):
menu.lst:
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda7 ro vga=775
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux - SSD
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb3 ro vga=775
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda7 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
cat /boot/grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
(hd2) /dev/sdc
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 115.0 GB, 115033153536 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13985 cylinders, total 224674128 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d1ddc
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 8194047 4096000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 8194048 161794047 76800000 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 161794048 224673791 31439872 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x152104b0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 771975167 385986560 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 771987510 976768064 102390277+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 968350068 976768064 4208998+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 813933288 968350004 77208358+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 771987573 813933224 20972826 83 Linux
Another note, is that grub-install takes a very long time to run after I update the menu.lst (5+ minutes), but the update does work without errors, and the new items do appear.
Any help would be appreciated, I'm wondering if I've just been looking at it too long...
Last edited by zhobbs (2011-05-11 19:40:04)

I solved this by using the uuid instead of the root:
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux - SSD
uuid 128a4425-c9ae-433f-b604-5488d55a14b3
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb3 ro vga=775
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
Also, I got "grub-install" to run much faster by removing the fd0 from the device map.

Grub error 17 problem

Having updated my BIOS, I'm now getting Grub error 17. Having followed the instructions in the wiki, fdisk tells me that there is nothing to fix. At this point I'm unclear as to why I'm having a problem and how I might fix it. My menu.lst points to root as being /devmapper/vg-sysroot - which is correct.

There are two solutions to GRUB ERROR 17:
Use a live linux CD (anything will work that has a boot loader on it that you can use to boot load and get back into your system, just point it to your kernel), One of the older Arch Linux CDs has one that will install command-line grub right to the partition.
Once you get into your machine up and running (possibly schrooted) re-run grub installer.
There are other methods: booting from g/i/PXE floppy disk/CD image/memdisk or GRUB4DOS.EXE
If you can get into grub command-line (which is usually not the case with error 17), you can manually point grub to your kernel, just by typing the lines you have posted (menu.lst) above one line at a time.
Last edited by nomorewindows (2012-01-21 16:26:27)

GRUB error during installationprocess

Hi,
Have been using Windows Vista side-by-side with my Arch installation for a while on my work Laptop and now we switched to Windows 7 so we reformatted the whole drive and it ended up with a default Windows layout, partition 1 100 MB for rescue and partition 2 for Windows 7.
Used gparted and shrank the partition 2 and splitted it so there are now:
partition1 for Windows 7 rescue
partition2 for Windows 7
partition3 for Archlinux / ext4
partition4 for Archlinux swap
But during the Archlinstallation process when I'm about to choose the location of the grub files/settings I have always pointed it towards the sda drive; not a particular partition.
And when I did it this time it ends up with:
Error installing GRUB.
(see /dev/tty7 for output)
tried to use nano on that file but its empty, didn't think tty7 was a readable file?
Whats wrong and how can I fix this?

did you use the netinstall image or the core image? The only time I've had grub errors during installation was due to a defected burn on an ubuntu install-disk a while back. You might want to run an md5 on the disk you burned and compare it to what it's supposed to be, (via this list)
Last edited by stevefed5291 (2010-03-04 15:28:50)

First install, GRUB error 13

Hey, so I downloaded the core image and booted from it. I am at a grub menu that gives me the options to boot from live cd (or no sata) and a bunch of other grub stuff.
when I try to boot from live CD, I get a
GRUB error 13: invalid or unsupported executable format.
I tried booting the ISOLINUX image, and that got me to the installer, but I am set up on wifi with no way to connect to the internet via a cable, so I can't do an FTP install with the ISOLINUX image. Any ideas here? I can't get anywhere right now...

Connect to the internet over wifi to install, then - where is the problem?
You might want to get a testing build, the official images are a bit old (in the "announcements.." subforum). Also have a look at the unofficial archboot images, they use syslinux and provide core.

Grub error! unknown file system

ive been using arch for the past few days on my computer and i total love it, so i went and installed it on my laptop alongside windows 7, however i get a grub error (grub error unknown files system). i installed grub on a boot partition within an extended partition and i think it isnt being mounted or something, but i havent a clue. could someone please help me out, and also possibly explain what is wrong and also how to fix it so that i may use the info in future situations and please keep it simple because i am new to arch
Last edited by flukee (2010-07-31 16:14:43)

I wonder how you could install GRUB on a boot partition within an extended partition. I don't see what you mean. If you install GRUB on a separate boot partition and then mount this boot partition on the root file system on another separate extended partition, how could you see GRUB in action? I guess you actually install GRUB on MBR of your HDD, but there are some mistakes in the entry of your menu.lst file. You'd better post the contents of the menu.lst file, and tell us that which partition you've installed arch on, e.g., sda5.
Last edited by plmday (2010-08-03 07:43:16)

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