[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
pacman -S grub
if the package is messed up or missing.

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Last edited by archtaku (2014-02-07 23:19:12)

x33a wrote:
Try
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[Solved] grub in minimal mode, not using my menu.lst

Hi everyone,
Installed Archlinux (using chakra livecd) on a friend's laptop, but for some reason have grub only in minimal mode... I can boot using
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
but I need to retype this at each boot...
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* sda2 : HP resue partition
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no error appears on the output, but no effect on next reboot
I also tried this on the grub prompt :
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setup (hd1)
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Any idea ?
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D'oh !!!
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According to Boot Camp: System requirements for Microsoft Windows operating systems - Apple Support
MacBook Pro
(17-inch, Mid 2009)
4
4
DVD
DVD
DVD
There is no support for Windows 8 (64-bit) on this machine.
From Boot Camp Support Software 4.0.4033
System Requirements
MacBook (13-inch, Late 2006)
MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2007)
MacBook (13-inch, Late 2007)
MacBook (13-inch, Early 2008)
MacBook (13-inch, Late 2008)
MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009 & Mid 2009)
MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009) *
MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010) *
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2008)
MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2008 & Mid 2009)
MacBook Air (11-inch & 13-inch, Late 2010) *
MacBook Pro (15-inch & 17-inch, Core 2 Duo)
MacBook Pro (15-inch & 17-inch, 2.2 & 2.4GHz)
MacBook Pro (15-inch & 17-inch, Early 2008) *
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008) *
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009 & Mid 2009) *
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2009) *
MacBook Pro (13-inch and 15-inch, Mid 2009) *
MacBook Pro (13-inch,15-inch, and 17-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro (13-in, 15-inch, and 17-inch, Early 2011 & Late 2011)
Mac Pro (Mid 2006)
Mac Pro (Early 2008) *
Mac Pro (Early 2009)
Mac Pro (Early 2007)
Mac Pro (Mid 2010)
Mac Pro (15-inch and 17-inch, 2.2 & 2.4GHz)
Mac mini (Mid 2007)
Mac mini (Early 2009 & Late 2009)
Mac mini (Mid 2010) *
iMac (17-inch, Late 2006)
iMac (20-inch, Late 2006)
iMac (24-inch, Late 2006)
iMac (20-inch & 24-inch, Mid 2007)
iMac (20-inch & 24-inch, Early 2008)
iMac (20-inch, Early 2009 & Mid 2009)
iMac (21.5-inch & 27-inch, Late 2009) *
iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) *
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010) *
iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010)
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011 & Late 2011)
iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011)
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I'm using the 2009.08 USB image.
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a)
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Why isn't my grub boothing from ext{3,4}?
Last edited by Frantic (2009-11-05 18:35:15)

Rede wrote:
I was getting that error but after re-installing grub and making some changes to the menu.lst file it was fixed.
I was able to at one stage boot into arch but it gave problems with the root. Now it just seems to freeze while trying to load grub.
I am currently trying yet another install of grub. I have been noticing though that my menu.lst file has been rolling back or not updating when I chroot back into my install after changing it earlier.
Try mounting your /boot partition under /mnt/boot.

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then I do:
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck --debug
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grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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I'm making a custom install iso with archiso+aif, aif is working fine, except the install bootloader is not updating the
/mnt/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
or
/mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst
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And unlike official archlinux iso/cd installer, aif+git (interactive) installer is not showing/asking to review the syslinux.cfg or grub's menu.lst file before installing the selected bootloader.
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I'm making a custom install iso with archiso+aif, aif is working fine, except the install bootloader is not updating the
/mnt/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
or
/mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst
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And unlike official archlinux iso/cd installer, aif+git (interactive) installer is not showing/asking to review the syslinux.cfg or grub's menu.lst file before installing the selected bootloader.
So, Please show me how to get grub and syslinux's configuration files to get properly updated by aif's install bootloader method in interactive procedure (aif -p interactive) thanks.

[Solved] Grub2 Update deletes menu.lst

[2013-06-24 18:07] [ALPM] warning: /boot/grub/menu.lst saved as /boot/grub/menu.lst.pacsave
[2013-06-24 18:07] [PACMAN] upgraded grub (0.97-21 -> 2.00-1)
After that I couldn't boot because menu.lst was gone. So I had to boot from a rescue disk and rename menu.lst.pacsave back to menu.lst.

There kinda already is one thread about it: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=165721

[SOLVED] Unable to load GRUB on MacBook PRO with GPT partition

Hi,
I have made an install of Arch on my MacBook Pro. I have made the installation of Arch to work before but I decided to make a clean install since I changed WM. I have written down my instructions thoroughly and followed them like a slave. It worked before but now it just decided not to work. When I was starting my Mac before I ended up at the GRUB menu being able to chose to load Arch. If I pressed the alt button I was able to load OS X. But after the reinstall the computer did not load GRUB.
I have reinstalled OS X again just to make sure everything is clean, especially the boot partition.
During the installation I mounted the partitions like so (sda4 = boot, sda5 = root, sda6=swap, sda7=home)
# mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
# mkdir /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/boot
# mkdir /mnt/home
# mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/home
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
After installing base and base-devel and modifying the system I did the following:
# pacman -S grub-efi-x86_64
# modprobe dm-mod
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=arch_grub --recheck --debug
# cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
NB! I executed these commands with /dev/sda1 still mounted on /boot/efi in the chrooted environment. This put the arch_grub bootloader-id under /boot/efi/EFI on /dev/sda1. I made sure to remove the old /boot/efi/EFI/arch_grub before I executed this command. This way is a little bit different from the Wiki but as I said before, /dev/sda1 was already mounted on /mnt/boot/efi when I followed these instructions.
Without installing the os-prober (I don't want to have OS X in grub) I then executed
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
exited, unmounted and rebooted. After the reinstall, suddenly the computer does not load grub? Instead I just end up booting into OS X.
Does anyone have any clue on what to do here? I have tried to reinstall a couple of times without success.
Last edited by archolith (2013-06-30 07:22:10)

Hi,
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1. I have rEFInd installed
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4. I chrooted into /mnt and followed the instructions up to setting up the network (in my case # systemctl enable [email protected])
5. Before I created the initial ram disk environment I installed aic94xx and bfa from the AUR as root (maybe not 100% correct)
5.a https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aic94xx-firmware/
5.b https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bfa-firmware/
6. I then ran the code # mkinitcpio -p linux, this time without the error messages I had gotten before
7. I set the root password and continued with these instructions:
7.a https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ma … Bootloader
8. When I installed grub the system said that it could not find a boot manager but I continued with the instructions
When I rebooted the computer everything went fine, I booted into rEFInd followed by grub. Can anyone with the same problem please follow these instructions and report back. It is good to see anyone else succeed before I report this thread as SOLVED. If you have any questions I will try to help.

[Solved] Unable to boot after install

Forgive me for the lack of code tags, having to write this on my phone.
I am unable to boot after installation. I receive an error wich has the incorrect UDID string. It doesn't even exist. I will update with error after posting so I can give grub config generation error first
When I run:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I get this:
Found Linux image : /boot/vmlinuz-linux
Found initd image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Warning: failed to connect to lvmetad: no such file or directory. falling back to internal scanning.
No volume groups found
[ 279.601712] SQUASHFS error: can't find a SQUASHFS superblock on sda3
[ 279.604502] EXT4-fs (sda3):unable to read superblock
[ 279.607266] EXT4-fs (sda3):unable to read superblock
[ 279.609928] EXT4-fs (sda3):unable to read superblock
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
Done
Sda3 is an extended volume
Edit: I just deleted the old .cfg and recreated a new one by re running the above command, uncounted and rebooted and it booted into CLI. 3rd time a charm after all. Marking this one solved
Last edited by Kirito (2013-05-15 07:55:31)

Oh, looking at your setup, it would seem that your system is likely still configured to boot to /dev/sdd (the windows drive).
As a user with numerous drives, you should be aware that using /dev/sdXY to identify your disks is a bad idea. There is no gaurantee that Arch will be /dev/sde every time, nor that windows will be /dev/sdd. You should use either filesystem labels (LABEL= or /dev/disk/by-label) or UUIDs (UUID= or /dev/disk/by-uuid). Though if you are using GPT, there is also the option of the PARTLABEL as well (which are the labels you create within the partitioner).

[SOLVED]Unable to install grub "couldn't find /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst"

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