[SOLVED] Forcing an installation, Arch Linux

[Mr.Macdonald]

Also my problem requires some crazy Linx GURU, Linus I need you

I am attempting to install Archlinux, and I managed to destroy my system.

I used the Installation from existing Linux. Here
Heres and overview

Basically the guide has you install Arch in the folder /newarch using the archlinux package manager. At the end I figured (incorrectly) that i was supposed to delete every thing but the /newarch folder and move its contents into /. After deleting everything but /newarch I realized that I had deleted Bash!?!?!?!

Now I am booting off of a Ubuntu Live disk because the Archlive didn't work. I still want Arch, and I managed to edit and set my fstab straight, and moved the /newarch to /, not the live disks / but the drive where / resides. Basically I got the drives to the point I think they should be, but look where I got me.

So now that I think I can boot my system, I restart and I got a Grub Error 15?? I believe (not sure) that it means that Grub doesn't know where to start the boot. So I would need to make a drive bootable. But I also managed to make this harder. I have partitioned my drive and now have a different partition for /boot /tmp /home / and /data (I already setup fstab for this and moved appropriate files to the right partitions).

So ... what now. Do I make my /boot partition bootable or the / partition, and how? I would really not like to reinstall Ubuntu. But reinstalling Grub or something else is fine.

Thank You for saving my system!!

[jayd512]

I'm not an Arch user, so I'm hoping maybe ozar or Manchunian will pop-in with better advice. But if you're trying to install GRUB, I would put in in the / directory.
As far as partitions to make, you might want just / and /home/ .And a swap partition.

*EDIT*

What is the output of

fdisk -l

[Mr.Macdonald]

fdisk -l give this

Disk /dev/hdc: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1               1         365     2931831   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdc2             366        2189    14651280   83  Linux
/dev/hdc3            2190        2432     1951897+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc4            2433        7296    39070080    5  Extended
/dev/hdc5            2433        3040     4883728+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc6            3041        4864    14651248+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc7            4865        7296    19535008+  83  Linux

[jayd512]

So you'll have to make your / partition bootable. Boot up using the install disk (or a LiveCD) and execute as root

fdisk /dev/hdc

You'll want to toggle the partition that holds / to be bootable.

*EDIT*

I forgot to mention earlier, if you don't remember the partition that holds /, you can find it with

cat /etc/fstab

[Mr.Macdonald]

I have a separate partition for /boot and if I made / bootable then wouldn't the /boot not be mounted and thus not allowing me to run the kernel. Or does fstab execute before the kernel.

[Jonathan183]

If this is the same subject as your later thread can you close this one and use the other thread ... I have posted example grub menu.lst entry in your other thread