Ubuntu :: GRUB4DOS - Menu Entry To Run Memtest Does Not Work
Jan 30, 2010
I just finished an install with 4 OS's. DOS, XP, WIN7, and UBUNTU. They work fine no with problems. However, the menu entry to run memtest does not work, However on my other system it works. The failing system is an i7 and the working one is a Core Duo. Both have a lot of ram. The Ubuntu os was copied with GPARTED. So it is identical.The menu.lst was a copy/paste job and then the HDxx's modified as needed. Please take a look and tell me where I went wrong.menulst.txt
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Feb 16, 2011
after new entry regarding memtest tool, grub doesn't see it.
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May 29, 2010
Anybody here know anything about grub4dos? I'm building myself a multiboot flash drive using grub4dos and one of my commands on the menu, obviously, is shutdown. This should be simply "halt" but every time I launch that command, or if I type it into the grub4dos command line, the computer locks up and I have to do a hard reboot.
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Feb 24, 2011
First of all, I'm far from beeing a Linux or any other OS expert, so excuse me if my questions are dumb
I use grub4Dos to boot on an USB stick and launch various windows tools/installers.
The problem here is that windows 7 and vista installers both use a 'BOOT' folder containing the boot config files. (dcb, boot.sdi and some other stuff).Of course I can't have 2 folders with the same name at the same place (here the root of my usb stick).
So here is what I d'like to do :
I saw ( here url )
that grub allows the use of the cat command, which should allow me to change the content of the files in the 'BOOT' folder before chainloading any install.
Unfortunately I can't find a way of doing so.
Here is what I tried :
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title Install Windows 7
root (hd0,0)
cat (hd0,0)/WIN7/dcb > (hd0,0)/BOOT/dcb
cat (hd0,0)/WIN7/boot.sdi > (hd0,0)/BOOT/boot.sdi
chainloader (hd0,0)/bootmgr
when I boot on my usb stick and try to launch the entry 'Install Windows 7' the cat command fails to find the files.
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Mar 10, 2010
Update Mgr got me a bunch of updates today, including a kernel (2.6.31-20). I was doing something else, and when it prompted me to do something with menu.lst, I accidentally accepted the default, which I think was to keep menu.lst unchanged.
As a result, the new kernel was installed but not added to menu.lst, so I guess I can't boot to it.
Is there a way to tell my computer, "make the entries into menu.lst automatically"
I guess I could put the entries in manually, but as a beginner, I'm pretty scared to be messing with that file...perhaps if someone has a link to an exceptionally understandable explanation...
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Apr 2, 2010
i just installed ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix, i made a partition (sda6) for it, first i had only opensuse, and when i was installing ubuntu, i put the bootloader in (sda6) the Opensuse bootloader is installed on MBR,
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Apr 3, 2010
i just installed ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix, i made a partition (sda6) for it, first i had only opensuse, and when i was installing ubuntu, i put the bootloader in (sda6) the Opensuse bootloader is installed on MBR,
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fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb02fb02f
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Oct 5, 2010
I uninstalled OpenOffice using Software Center and installed LibreOffice from the PPA using the instructions on this page:[url]
I can't find any way to launch it. Applications > Office used to have OpenOffice Writer in it. Now there are no menu items for LibreOffice any darn place.
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Apr 26, 2010
There are times that I would like to open an app as root user without having to use the command line in order to do that. I learned of a nice app in the Fedora repos called beesu and I will show you how to set up a menu entry to be able to use this nice app.
From man beesu:
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See man beesu for more information.
Beesu can be installed in Fedora with the following command:
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IMPORTANT: Beesu must be installed in order to successfully complete this tutorial.
You can use beesu from the command line with the following example:
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This will open gedit as root user after the correct root password has been entered into the password prompt. This is great. However, I'd like to open an app as root user without having to use the command line or alt+f2 run box. So, I wrote a small bash script that uses zenity to prompt the user for an app to open as well as the root password.
Copy the following code into a new text file and name it mybeesu.sh.
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You need to change the /path/to bit in step 4 "Command" to reflect the path to which you saved the mybeesu.sh script. Click the OK button to save the new menu item.
Now, when you click the new menu item from the gnome menu, a zenity window will open asking which app you want to open. After that, a second window will open prompting you for the root password. If all goes well, and you entered the correct root password, your desired app should open as if you used su -c 'foo' to launch it.
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Mar 4, 2010
I recently upgraded grub -> grub2 on my karmic box. Grub2 worked when chainloaded from legacy grub, and also the first time I tried it standalone. Both times the grub2 menu came up.
I ran vbeinfo at a grub2 command prompt, and found my monitor's native res listed - 1280x1024. I added that to my /etc/defaults/grub and then ran update-grub, and rebooted. This time no menu appeared and the default entry booted straight away. I suspected that the resolution was not supported for some reason or that the way I entered it in the config file was wrong, so I commented it out again in /etc/default/grub, and ran update-grub again - to no avail.
I have since tried lots of different formats for the GRUB_GFXMODE, such as 1280x1024@24, 1280x1024x24, and the normal 640x480, but none of them give me a grub menu. I have even tried using GRUB_TERMINAL=console, to no avail. I have checked the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file each time to make sure my changes were put there correctly by update-grub. I have also made sure that timeout was set to 10, and the hidden timeout was set to 0. My GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet".
I have reinstalled grub2, grub-pc, and grub-common, and I have dpkg-reconfigured them all too. I have no idea what to do to get my grub menu showing up again.
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Jan 11, 2011
I've just installed FreeBSD 8.1 on /dev/sda4 (FreeBSD slice), without installing the boot loader from FreeBSD (I've selected None when prompted for boot loader in sysinstall). Now I want to use my existing Grub2 from already installed Ubuntu 10.10 to boot FreeBSD also.
After some reading, I've added to the end of /etc/grub.d/40_custom:
After running sudo update-grub, grup.cfg file shows my new entry. The problem is that after restart, I don't see the new entry in the grub menu.
Another question, If i used chainloader +1, that means I need to have the FreeBSD bootloader installed also on /dev/sda4 right? For chainloading booloaders?
I didn't get to that step, I first want to see the entry in the menu.
Any idea what I might be missing/misdoing? (I also checked for blank spaces in the menuentry like the wiki for grub2 says)
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May 6, 2011
Having just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 from 10.10 I noticed that my Grub menu had not upgraded. The upgrade was not as straight forward as it should have been as the PC hung at the end of the installation resulting in a reboot and running dpkg in safe mode to get it all back up and running.
To fix the incorrect grub menu.lst file which was not updating, I renamed the original file and then ran sudo update-grub. It generated a new and correct file. However, my Windows partition was not listed as a Grub menu option.
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Mar 6, 2010
I'm using Fedora 12 with Gnome and I have a slight problem with my places menu. I have entries in the list that I would like to remove, but cannot figure out how. I multiboot Fedora with Windows 7 and windows 98. My Places menus looks something like this:
Places
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Home Folder
Desktop
Music .....
Now, if you notice there are 2 entries for both my 'Storage' and 'Windows 98' partitions. On of them will actually open up a window showing the contents of the partition, the other displays an error which basically says "Unable to mount, drive is already mounted". Right clicking on the entry has the same effect as left clicking, it just brings up the error message. They do not appear in the Bookmarks menu.
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Jan 4, 2011
I'm trying to add an entry to the gnome menu for every users of a FEDORA 14 system, both
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xdg-desktop-menu install --novendor --mode system osean-programmer.desktop
and
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desktop-file-install osean-programmer.deskto
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How to add the application launcher to every user's Desktop during the RPM installation?
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May 9, 2010
I am running ubuntu 10.4 only .
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Dec 29, 2010
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Mar 11, 2011
I have openSUSE 11.4 KDE (64-bit). Very inexperienced Linux user. I just dragged Thunderbird's icon to the lower panel so that it can be launched quickly. But now when I go to Application Launcher -> Applications -> Internet -> E-mail, the Thunderbird entry is no longer visible.How do I bring it back?
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Feb 18, 2010
what should be my menu.lst entry to the 3rd drive intended for fedora to boot. for now this is what i did but didn't work.
# Other bootable partition config begins
title Fedora (on /dev/sda3)
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,2) vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd
initrd (hd0,2) initrd.gz
# Other bootable partition config ends
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Feb 3, 2010
How can I add a menu entry when I right click my mouse system wide?
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May 25, 2011
Ok, first is it possible to take a program I wrote and make it to be a entry in the right menu of a file browser program.
Also, can this happen if the program is developed in Java?
OpenSuSE 11.4
Kde 4
Dolphin(file browser)
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Sep 25, 2010
I have just installed KDE3.5.10 on S13.1 and have followed all steps required on the site at 'http://slackware.osuosl.org/unsupported/kde-3.5.10-for-slack13.0/' containing the packages, finishing with:
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You'll probably need to log out and back in again for the profile scripts to add the KDE3 stuff to your $PATH and $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. When you log back in, KDE3 should start when you run X. Unlike LXDE, this install didn't automatically create a menu entry for gdm. Everything seems to be right, but I can't get the gdm entries I've tried to work. Could somebody who has also installed 3.5.10 kindly post the correct file contents?
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Jun 20, 2010
I've recently installed suse x64 kde in dual boot mode with windows. I have 2 primary partitions with ntfs with 1 for windows7 boot and other for data/storage. There is no boot provision for data partition. SUSE install is on extended partition. I am unable to run fdisk -l and boot info script for some reason, kde is freaking me out (used to use gnome for last 4 years). The GRUB shows data as a boot and it added an entry in its menu. I will like to remove that entry from menu list.
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Oct 15, 2010
I have manually added an entry for Ubuntu in my grub menu, using Yast. But every time the kernel is updated, this entry disappears. On the other hand, the one for Windows, that was added during OpenSuse's installation, is still there. So how can I keep this entry for Ubuntu ?
Edit : when I save the menu configuration in Yast, I get the following message :
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Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4 running...
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May 12, 2011
i'm new to CentOS forums, First things first: OS CentOS 5 KDE 3.5 I'm missing the "switch user" entry in the KDE-Menu. After a lot of searching and trying out different hints, I'm at the end of the rope. What works: I can start a new session via "lock current session". I can switch between sessions with F7, F8, I do have the entries:
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So can you point me to what's wrong / missing?
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Jul 26, 2010
I built a multi-boot flash drive using the instructions here but unfortunately, those instructions don't include gparted, and I much prefer gparted to the partition managers that are included. How would I go about loading gparted with grub4dos? Either the zip or the iso version is okay with me, I just want to be able to load the live version of the program. I do know that it is included in the ubuntu livecd that I have loaded on the flash drive, but I prefer the standalone version.
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Feb 1, 2011
Downloaded ok and the terminal did it's unpacking and updating thing, then it said I needed to reboot.So I did, and now I can only boot into memtest.I've had this before and the solution was to hold shift down at boot to force grub to appear, then pick a kernel and set it as default in startupmanager once ubuntu had loaded.
But no dice this time, I've tried holding the shift key down (using USB and ps2 keyboards) but I cant make grub appear - straight to memtest every time.
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Jan 9, 2010
I did updates that came up automatically, and now when it rebooted, I can't go in to anything except memtest. I held shift to see the menu and it still only showed those. I can't loose my data so reinstalling isn't an option for me. Right now I'm using the CD to boot to this. I can see my data on my HDD and its there, but I don't know what to do in order to make it boot to the OS partition (Just switched from Windows 3 days ago).
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Nov 8, 2010
Shut down as normal last night, no major changed yet after booting this morning my computer went straight into memtest86+. After finishing, and i rebooted, it did it again. So, i held shift to get into the grub.
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