[arch-general] Can't Install GRUB on a GPT Formatted Disk

[Priit Kivisoo]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Aaron Schaefer <aaron at elasticdog.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10639
>
> Thanks! I've applied that updated patch, and GRUB seems to install
> okay, but when I boot I don't get the standard GRUB menu, I just get
> dropped into the GRUB console...my menu.lst looks like this:
>
> # (0) Arch Linux
> title  Arch Linux
> root   (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/system_vg-root_lv ro
> initrd /kernel26.img
>
> I'm a little confused on the root declarations...I'm assuming the root
> (hd0,0) should be pointing to the actual /boot partition, and then the
> root kernel parameter points to the actual / partition (in this case
> an LVM partition), correct?
>
> --
> Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer
>

Yes, that is correct. However, my menu.lst generated by default install has
root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/longuuid, boots fine (also with lvm). I don't think
it should matter, however. You can try putting the timout line there, if you
don't have it there.

Priit

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