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sacarde

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Registered: 2025-09-25

Posts: 14

grub-install problem

hi,
   in an installation, after chroot into new system I execute:

grub-install /dev/sda

but I have this error:

https://imgur.com/vmxw6ao

can you help me?

Last edited by sacarde (2025-10-31 16:39:01)

abaumann

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Registered: 2019-11-14

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Re: grub-install problem

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB.

Try to set a target architecture (i386-pc):

grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda

Somehow not specifying a target architecture makes a wrong guess..

..or it really is a strange machine i386-ieee1275 with an OpenFirmare or so.

sacarde

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Registered: 2025-09-25

Posts: 14

Re: grub-install problem

grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda

OK