On 02/04/11 18:37, StarLion wrote:
I seem to recall way back when (Red Hat 4?) having to defrag Windows
prior to shrinking the partition to ensure that problems of this sort
were avoided, at least that was the advice the HOWTO mag I bought
offered so that's what I did.
Yes, I did defrag Windows first, several times even, but that bit of data
wouldn't bulge. That's why the paranoid in me thought it might be a
deliberate ploy from Microsoft lol
I understand that kind of data is usually the pagefile.
In case anyone's wondering, the tip from Terry (second one) has
allowed me to resized the partition without a problem with Windows.
Now the problem is GRUB is failing to install. I realise I'm asking an
arch-centric question in bugging you all with this, but here's the
c'n'p of what I posted on the Arch forums in case anyone thinks they
can lend a hand.
Using the pre-release core (i686) iso 2011.03.23 because the standard
iso doesn't have the drivers to support my wireless device (though
neither seems to have a driver for the wired interface, interestingly)
When at the 'Install Bootloader' step, it attempts to build the GRUB
device map, then the arch installer quits, printing this at the bottom
along with a console prompt:
ERROR: device_is_raid needs a blockdevice as $1 ( given)
Attempted to then run 'grub-install' from said console as follows:
[root@archiso ~]# grub-install /dev/sda --root-directory=/mnt
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
The file /mnt/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly/
[root@archiso ~]#
I found I had to pass the root-directory argument, as otherwise it
couldn't find the stage1 file.
This hard disk is not using raid in any way, and for reference has a
partition layout as follows
/dev/sda1 ntfs as PQSERVICE
/dev/sda2 ntfs as SYSTEM RESERVED
/dev/sda3 ntfs as Acer
/dev/sda4 extended partition containing:
/dev/sda5 ext3 as /
/dev/sda6 swap
The first three were already present on the disk with Windows 7, which
incidentally continues to boot without issue. The only modification
made was to shrink the Acer (aka C:\) partiton with GParted to make
room for Arch.
Would rather use GRUB than other bootloaders unless unavoidable.
Thanks for any help offered.
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There is an existing bug-report and fix here:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23494
I have dual-booted Arch with Win 7 with no issues before. I used the
windows disk management programs to initially resize the partition. Then
used the Arch install media to setup the disk as I wanted. System worked
fine with Grub legacy.
It might be worth installing from an earlier .iso, downloading the
packages (and any dependecies) you need to get the network working on
removable media and using pacman -U to install them.
Hope this helps,
Dean
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