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Registered: 2010-12-08

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New release

Will the new release where Mr Green says he is working on Grub2 have the option to install Grub to a root partition? Or a choice of installing grub-legacy perhaps?

Mr Green

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Registered: 2010-11-07

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Re: New release

Grub-legacy is in AUR if you still want to use it then follow install up until bootloader, select none and finish.

You need to packer in grub-legacy [update pacman then remove grub-bios]

Follow guide for grub-legacy on Arch Wiki

For now we are working on grub-bios and possibly syslinux support

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Re: New release

Thanks but I can't install it. (x86_64)

packer -S grub-legacy     gives 'dependency for grub-legacy  gcc-multilib does not exist'
pacman -S gcc-multilib   gives 'target not found'

Same for multilib-devel which I saw mentioned in the AUR.
I am using ctrl-alt-F1 to get a terminal...is this OK? If not how do I become root on the live cd?

Mr Green

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Registered: 2010-11-07

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Re: New release

I did have a quick look at grub-legacy you need to use packer to install gcc-multilib [although package I could find was called gcc-multilib-x32]

You can use sudo under livecd or run sudo -i [to become root]

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Re: New release

Success at last!
I noticed you had visited  AUR...thanks for that.
For anybody else on a x86_64 system the easiest way is to add [multilib] to pacman.conf during installation and also change to your fastest server at that time because for some reason a full upgrade is required.
Remove grub-bios
Download multilib-devel and then do #pacman -Syyu
#packer -S grub-legacy
Neither grub-install nor grub> setup () worked for me but as I was copying boot information to the menu.lst of the old Mepis which is in my MBR it didn't matter.
Thanks for your help...beautiful distro!