I've got Arch Linux mostly installed, and I seem to have installed GRUB with no problem. My partition table looks like this:                              cgdisk 0.8.7                          Disk Drive: /dev/sda                       Size: 625142448, 298.1 GiBPart. #     Size        Partition Type              Partition Name------------------------------------------------------------------            1007.0 KiB  free space   1        15.0 GiB    Linux filesystem            root   2        1007.0 KiB  BIOS boot partition         bios            17.0 KiB    free space   3        283.1 GiB   Linux filesystem            homeAfter partitioning my drive like this, I ran:root@archiso ~ # arch-chroot /mnt /bin/zshroot@archiso [02:19:45] [/]-> # grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sdaInstallation finished. No error reported.However, when I boot, I getGRUB _The underscore blinks, but I can't type anything. I still have access to the Arch installation by using the original install disk and chrooting into it, but obviously I don't want to do this every time I start up my laptop. What could possibly be preventing me from booting properly? I've made sure my partitions conform to what the GRUB page says I need, but to no avail.For reference, I'm using the Arch Beginner's Guide and I've chronicled the epic story of how I spent my Saturday on my wiki.
Arch Linux install doesn't boot
arch linux;grub2;boot loader
I notice that you are specifying the CPU architecture using the --target parameter to grub-install. This would normally not be needed, as you'd want to use the same architecture GRUB as your running system is using.Unless you have some specific need like cross-compiling a boot device for a different architecture, you shouldn't need to specify --target at all.It may also be worth using a GRUB device identifier rather than a Linux device node name to identify the place whereto install the boot loader. In your case, that would probably be (hd0) rather than /dev/sda.