14.04

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 12:53:26 UTC 2014


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Martin Cigorraga wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> sudo grub-install /dev/sda
>>> sudo update-grub
>>
>> Running grub-install this way lets grub trying to guess the correct
>> media and flags needed to properly install itself.
>> Try running this instead:
>> $ sudo grub-install --target=i386-pc
>>
>> More info here:
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#Preliminary_requirements
>
> Thanks for the interesting pointer. However for *Ubuntu this seems to be
> not necessary. From "grub-install --help":
>
> | --target=TARGET        install GRUB for TARGET platform
> |                        [default=i386-pc]

Arch users might also need to use "--target" because, unlike Ubuntu,
Arch doesn't have separate grub packages for bios and efi firmware. So
there /might/ some situations with gpt-labelled disks where
grub-install needs to have the target specified.




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