Hi, Sorry, my bad. I forgot to add that to the email. As I stated, I am installing in "VMware Workstation 16 Player" for windows see system specs below. Device name LAPTOP-57VCMCF1 Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U CPU @ 1.60GHz 2.11 GHz Installed RAM 16,0 GB (15,8 GB usable) Device ID E533DBAD-50FA-48FF-A9AC-4B1B9BBC462D Product ID 00342-41428-46767-AAOEM System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display I am thinking about making this an Arch machine and running Windows in Qemu for work. Warm regards, Brandt -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Linux for blind general discussion Sent: Friday, 02 July 2021 21:17 To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Interesting arch issue Howdy, maybe this is better placed on an ArchLinux list than here :). witouth know your system, i have an guess. if you exactly type what you send per mail then you missed some parameter (-o to specify the output file) in grub-mkconfig $ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg just an guess cheers chrys Am 02.07.21 um 20:58 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion: > Hi all, > > > > I have in the past installed Arch successfully, but now, for some > unknown reason every time I do so by hand, AKA "the arch way", > something is wrong with my grub and seeing that I am at the moment > installing in "VMware Workstation 16 Player" for windows, I cannot > boot back in to installation media to repair grub. > > > > Seeing that I am installing for bios boot, I do the following. > > > > $ pacman -Sy grub > > $ sudo grub-install -target=i386-pc /dev/sda > > $ grub-mkconfig /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > > > If I am doing something wrong here, please help? > > > > Somehow I got Arch installed using archfi, though I find using that > script to be a pain, because it does not install accessibility tools > such as espeakup, Orca and espeak. I also found that the sound didn't > work until I reinstalled alsa and alsa-utils. > > > > Warm regards, > > > > Brandt Steenkamp > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list