Arch Linux

Salut !

I've been helping a friend to install Arch, which I had never used before, and it's really pleasant to control the installation precisely while still having a very good guide, although we're not finished yet ^^

Setting up grub2, we forgot to run grub-mkconfig. I would have expected the first boot to fail before the grub menu, and I would have been able to understand the problem in that case, but this is not what happened. The grub-1:2.02.beta2-4-i686 package, which I have manually unpacked on my Debian computer, contains a /boot/grub/grub.cfg file (attached). I'm pretty convinced that it's a packaging mistake since it tries to boot on 'hd0,msdos5' (doesn't even exist on my friend's computer) with UUID=ad4103fa-d940-47ca-8506-301d8071d467.

Because of the UUID this file has virtually no chance of being relevant to the user. Also grub-mkconfig overwrites it, so only forgetful people like I am even notice it's there. I think it should be removed. But according to https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk/grub.cfg?h=packages/grub it's been updated twice. Am I missing something ?

Thank you for existing,
Louis