On 06-08-2012 23:20, David C. Rankin wrote: > I noticed that too. Also, if you just follow the beginners guide without using > the grub2 page, you end up installing grub2 wrong because the beginners guide > omits the --target flag for grub-install. There should be links to: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub2#Install_to_440-byte_MBR_boot_code_region > > for the most common install. Instead the beginners_guide just says to: > > grub-install /dev/sda > > which according to the grub2 wiki will result in the grub2 error on: > > "source_dir doesn't exist" After reading the wiki and the man page I did use only 'grub-install /dev/sda' and it worked without any problems for the 3 systems that I have converted to use grub2. As I see it --target should not be needed if grub is going to run from the same machine/architecture it was installed with. The man page says: --target=TARGET install GRUB for TARGET platform [default=current] If grub can't decide correctly on what is the current platform, it sounds like a bug with grub and it should be reported upstream so it can be fixed. -- Mauro Santos
