Monday, August 19, 2013

Reinstall Grub with Arch Linux live USB / CD

Installing dualboot or multiboot operating system sometimes can damage the boot loader and make the pc fail to boot as it happened to me when I was installing multiple linux distros a few days ago.

But do not worry because installing grub boot loader is very easy and I use Archlinux live usb to reinstall grub in my laptop.

Here is my way to fix it and reinstall grub using archlinux live usb.

First, I restart my computer and boot from live archlinux usb and I get todefault archlinux shell.

1. Create a root point for root disk in /mnt/root

mkdir /mnt/root

2. Mount root partition to this point

mount /dev/sdXX /mnt/root

3. Now I have to change the root

arch-chroot /mnt/root

4. Now is the time to regenerate grub.cfg

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

5. The last only install grub back in the MBR

grub-install /dev/sdX

Then reboot the computer and it was working and I can see boot menu to choose which os I will use.

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