Re: [orca-list] A question for you Archlinux users

["Christian" <christian08 runbox com>]

Hi Mike,
Well, I got it working now. I have to install it into the MBR since I am not able to change the boot order of 
my harddrives in the bios right now. So now everything is good. So now it's time to install Gnome!
Christian


On 2010-04-12 at 17:28 Michael Whapples wrote:

> I am not fully sure what the problem is but I think you may have caused
> some
> issue in your configuration. I would have said if installing grub to a
> partition do it to the Linux partition, I think I may have warned against
> installing it in the windows partition (you may need to do some windows
> recovery stuff to fix the windows boot stuff, I think the windows CD
> rescue/recovery tool can fix this).
>
> General questions which may affect booting would include:
> * Did you set the system to boot from the second hard disk in the BIOS?
> * Although you may have set the root, did you make sure the paths to the
> kernel image and initrd image are correct (they can differ if you use a
> separate boot partition from the root partition)?
>
> Michael Whapples
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian" <christian08 runbox com>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 2:27 AM
> Subject: [orca-list] A question for you Archlinux users
>
>
> Hi all,
> OK, this has nothing to do with Orca, but maybe someone is able to assist
> me
> with this.
> I have installed Arch onto my first harddrive, in this case sda and I have
> windows on my other one, sdb. I selected to install the Grub boot loader
> onto my sdb harddrive, and I also selected to install it onto partition 1,
> not in the MBR of sdb. But my system doesn't boot.
> In the menu.lst I specified hd0,0 as the default one, but it doesn't work.
> Any tips?
> Many thanks,
> Christian
>
>
>
>
>
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