[orca-list] OT: grub2 and Archlinux

["Christian" <christian08 runbox com>]

Hi all,
Sorry for being off topic.
I am searching for a solution but I haven't found any as of yet.
But maybe  any of you have an idea.
I am having issues with the old Grub as some of you already know so I did a clean installation of Arch.
My harddrives are one SATA drive, which shows up as /dev/sdb and the other which is an IDE drive shows up as 
/dev/sda and in the bios it is the SATA drive that is set to boot first and I cannot change that right now. 
And I want to install Arch onto /dev/sda
OK, here is what I did:
On the Arch linux wiki it was recommended to skip the install boot loader after the installation was 
complete, so I did that.
Then, I installed grub2 and removed the old boot loader as it prompted for that.
Then I chrooted into the newly installed system wiht the following command, also taken form the Arch Grub2 
wiki:
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
chroot /mnt bash
I reviewed the content of the file that was created in /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Here is what the file looks like:

        # Config file for GRUB2 - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,2)
#  /dev/sda3       (hd0,3)
#

# Timeout for menu
set timeout=5

# Set default boot entry as Entry 0
set default=0

# (0) Arch Linux
menuentry "Arch Linux" {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
}

## (1) Windows
menuentry "Windows" {
set root=(hd1,1)
chainloader +1
}
Then I issued:
grub-install /dev/sdb --no-floppy
And I got no errors.
After rebooting the machine nothing happens.
So please, if you have any ideas please let me know.
Many thanks,
Christian