On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Curtis Shimamoto wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash I had intended to install grub into mbr on /dev/sda1. I used --target=i386-pc as provided in the grub-install step and did so with misgivings since the machine I use is an x86-64 machine. The only x86-64 target on the arch beginner's guide was for ufi not bios. A bug like this in grub were I to write software for my employer would have me fired that same day. A software package can't keep track of its files it creates and it uses is a package with no self-defense capabilities. Sorry about that, but some of us started programming when the only thing creating webs were real spiders and web page developer was a job title that had yet to be created.
