If this file is not present then the system is scanned and a new one is made, else if it is there then the data inside it is used. If more than one device is specified then the output is separated by one blank line. Everything appears to be going well until the installer attempts to install grub on the boot partition up until then, it recognized that its a software raid device and asks if i want to load the appropriate drivers i select yes, of course and the partitioner sees the correct drive size, installer appears to be writing files to the drive as. First, you should create or edit the configuration file, bootgrubnf. Contribute to rhbootgrub2 development by creating an account on github. Sep, 2007 this means that if your computer has a fairly modern bios that can access more than 8gb first 1024 cylinders of hard disk space, grub will automatically be able to access all of it. Is it possible to make grub install and later on update to all disks, and not just devsda. How to fix the grub rescue issue while installing windows 7. A master boot record mbr is the first sector of a data storage device that has been partitioned. Oct 20, 2017 i want to install linux mint on devsda, and made 3 partitions on it using gparted. It will over write grub and youll be able to boot into windows7. Apr 19, 2018 now we have a visible fat32 filesystem on the esp. It is the product of various scripts and should not normally be edited directly. This means youll need to run grubinstall again if you replace one disk.
If you still do want to install grub under a unixlike os such as gnu, invoke the program grubinstall see invoking grubinstall as the superuser root. Attempting to install grub to a disk with multiple partition labels. I wipe everything, go through the install and reboot. According to airhead this can be caused by having the bios detect the disks automatically. I think you should pick one of the sda options, probably the first one but they do look equivalent. I assume that you mean that you have windowes installed on the first partition of the primary master drive and you have one or more windows data. Grub2 for windows supports installation and boot on three platforms. When executed, grubinstall may run one or more other commands, such as grubprobe, grubmkimage, and grubsetup. For example, most operating systems dont tell grub how to map bios drives to os devices correctlygrub merely guesses the mapping. Safely boot multiple windows and linux systems on both gpt and mbr disks. Therefore, you may run those commands directly to install grub, without using grubinstall. How the stack overflow team uses stack overflow for teams. Im not aware of support in grub to declare two disks as being in a raid1 array so that grub install would automatically write to both.
Grub can be run from or be installed to any device floppy disk, hard disk, cdrom, usb drive, network drive and can load operating systems from just as many. This, unfortunately, does not solve the problem next time i do an aptget distupgrade i get the same error. Solved grub installation failed error linux mint forums. This command allows the user to modify the installation by setting the root directory, preload modules, run specific setup files and more. You only need to specify one argument to the program, namely, where to install the boot loader. Lmde2 had a grub update recently and i think that update may have affected the other system drives in the several boxes even. In theory, a 32 bit system can not work with more than 4 gb of ram 2 32 bytes. The bios then locates boot loader software held on a peripheral device designated as a boot device, such as a hard disk or a cddvd, and loads and executes that software, giving it control of. Ive worked on this problem from the angle that i need to be able to run. Jan 15, 20 recheck probe a device map even if it already exists this flag is unreliable and its use is strongly discouraged. I decided to upgrade my work laptop dualboot with xp machine from 12. Dont do that, however, unless you are very familiar with the internals of grub.
I want to install linux mint on devsda, and made 3 partitions on it using gparted. Another possibility is that grub was installed on the mbr and then reinstalled for instance due to hard disk changes but using the wrong setup and root commands probing devices to guess bios drives. In these situations, i always use linuxs md raid1 for the root filesystem andor boot. If this happens, a manual installation of grub may by required. This means youll need to run grub install again if you replace one disk. Gentoo forums view topic solved grub2 installation. From this linode community rescue and rebuild tutorial there are a ubuntu disk and a 256mb swap partition that are very close to your q so i dont think the swap partition would be the boot device, and its. Check the number of hard disk you will install, be it usb or hdd. The argument has to be either a device file like devhda. The fundamental difference between 32 and 64 bit systems is the size of memory addresses. And if youve got a linux distro too, you can use easy bcd to write grub into windows mb.
Install grub files in directory boot grub of current partition. In practice, it is possible to work around this limitation by using the 686pae kernel variant, so long as the processor handles the pae physical address extension functional. It looks like grub wants to know which is the boot device it should use. The grub2 software has now been merged to the system, but not yet installed. On an ibm pc compatible machine, the bios selects a boot device, then copies the first sector from the device, into physical memory at memory address 0x7c00. Insert your ubuntu cd, reboot your computer and set it to boot from cd in the bios and boot into a live sessio. How to fix the grub rescue issue while installing windows. Error during installing grub installation arch linux. For example, under linux the following will install grub into the mbr of the first. All modules are digitally signed for your security. Why do i get the message grub install failed, this is a. The bios then locates boot loader software held on a peripheral device.
But the instructions in those guides havent worked. Briefly, the bootloader is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. Some software on nonlinux operating systems also used this. One of the things about running a more minimalist os is that you sometimes need to take responsibility for tweaking certain things to get the most out of it. In my opinion the best answer is to go to the terminal with ubuntulive stick or cd. I have no idea which disk is the one that bios wants to boot all disks are the same, and since i have raid over it, i cant remove them at will, so the only solution i see is to make grub install on all sdasdg. If root is on an lvm or evms device, use the lvm or evms name for the. Unable to install grub in dummy executing grubinstall dummy failed.
Therefore, grub provides you with a map file called the device map, which you must fix if it is wrong. If grub installation reports no problem, then update the grub configuration file. In disk management is disk 2, we will remember number 2 here. Mar 06, 2015 the command to change the grub 2 installation device or boot files is grubinstall run as root.
In practice, it is possible to work around this limitation by using the 686pae kernel variant, so long as the processor handles the pae physical address extension functionality. For information on where grub should be installed on pc bios platforms, see bios installation in order to install grub under a unixlike os such as gnu, invoke the program grubinstall see invoking grubinstall as the superuser root. For example, under linux the following will install grub into the mbr of the first ide disk. This means that if your computer has a fairly modern bios that can access more than 8gb first 1024 cylinders of hard disk space, grub will automatically be able to access all of it.
Install boot loader in master boot record of first hard disk. Grub can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. Grub2installing community help wiki ubuntu documentation. Gentoo forums view topic solved grub2 installation error. The command to change the grub 2 installation device or boot files is grubinstall run as root. Uefi should be able to boot whatever disk hasnt failed, and grubinstall will write to the raid mounted at bootefi. What else is there to do when compiling two hours worth of stuff on another machine, obviously. To re install grub on a uefi based system, use this. Additionally, grub must be installed to the boot sector of a drive or. Apr 23, 2011 grubinstall reads the device map, that is the device file to bios drive mapping, from the bootgrubdevice. Installing grub using grubinstall gnu grub manual 0. If the grub boot loader hasnt been installed on your hard disk, you should create the configuration file before installing the boot loader in some distributions, the configuration file is bootgrubmenu.
This install doesnt conflict with standard install as long as they are in separate directories. The command to install grub manually to a disk devsdx is. Install boot loader in first partition of first hard disk. Install grub2 on usb and hdd from windows aio boot.
I have more than one windows partition on drive0 hda, so im too afraid to attempt the fixmbr method mentioned elsewhere on here from xps rescue mode. If this file is not present then the system is scanned and a new one is made, else if. Another possibility is that grub was installed on the mbr and then reinstalled for instance due to hard disk changes but using the wrong setup and root commands. The main grub 2 configuration file, normally located in the bootgrub folder, is g. Grub 2 can be installed on multiple drives all pointing to the same operating system. This did not work in my case, the grubinstall command gave this error. Presuming the first disk the one where the system boots from is devsda, one of the following commands will do.
Next, install the necessary grub2 files to the bootgrub directory via the grubinstall command. Supports both 64 and 32 bit efi firmware as well as bios. Then reboot your system from the primary partition and see if grub now works correctly. If the info and grub install programs are properly installed at your site, the command info grub install should give you access to the complete manual. If the rootdirectory option is used, then grub install will copy images into the operating system installation rooted at that directory. On grub rescue shell i then set this partition set prefix and then set insmod.
How to manually install grub after a failed installation or disk. After a fairly standard install of void linux, plus xorg, i discovered that i wasnt happy with video playback and browser scrolling. Error no such device how to fix this problem in grub. Then i tried method 3 of the tutorial below by using chroot, then only it worked. However, blocklists are unreliable and their use is discouraged grubinstall. I spent some time yesterday building out a uefi server that didnt have onboard hardware raid for its system drives. Note that grubinstall is actually just a shell script and the real task is done by other tools such as grubmkimage. But you probably the graphical solution works fine. You only need one esp, just need to put everything in the right place. This will actually install an entirely fresh copy of grub on your partition, removing the waste products of any issues of the linux kernel that you might no longer use.
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Error during installing grub installation arch linux forums. If the info and grubinstall programs are properly installed at your site, the command info grubinstall should give you access to the complete manual. Im not aware of support in grub to declare two disks as being in a raid1 array so that grubinstall would automatically write to both. Openbsd, and uses grub setup to install grub into the boot sector. At the point where i need to install grub bootloader i get following error.