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There's nothing wrong with that command, per se. You must've ducked up something else?
It's grub.cfg not grub.conf. it's really easy to miss because everything else is .conf.
Oh shit that's right, totally missed that! :D
Me too, including when ferociously trying to debug why grub wouldn't find a freaking bootable anything. The error message isn't "uh, no config bro" but "hey, nothing to boot here, see ya in The Shell". Argh.
Yeah, it has definitely caught me off guard a couple of times when installing Arch. At that stage if there's no grub it didn't install or the ESP flag isn't set on EFI. If there is grub but no options it's usually the config.
One time it was because I forgot to install the kernel, it took me a while to figure that one out.
That's why I always press tab to autocomplete due to this.
Yeah, for a while I didn't realize auto complete was as simple as installing bashcompletion. Doesn't help if the file doesn't exist though.