On 09/09/12 at 11:15pm, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I am learning more about my hardware doing an archlinux installation on an > amd k8 athelon system. Apparently grub won't work without use of > blocklists and it complains that blocklists are unreliable so cannot embed > and for that reason won't install. Fortunately another boot loader other > than grub is available. I'll try that one later. Too late tonight to do > it. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash > > Are you trying to install to the mbr of a partition? If so, this error is expected. See our amazing wiki here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#Install_to_Partition_or_Partitionless_Disk Regards, -- Curtis Shimamoto sugar.and.scruffy@xxxxxxxxx