I'm running Kubuntu 10.4. I cloned an old xp installation into the first primary partition on my disk and I was trying to add it to grub2. I can access the files when I mount it which means that the xp filesystem is working fine. When I do an update-grub though it doesn't detect it. I think that the problem is related to the fact that I cannot find a boot.ini file into the xp installation.
View 1 Repliesi'm using ubuntu 9.10... i'm working on some projects on L4 microkernel... i want to add it to the grub...i was familiar with the earlier grub, i.e editing the menu.lst...
title = L4Ka:istachio/i586 pingpong
kernel=/boot/kickstart
module=/boot/i586-kernel
module=/boot/sigma0
module=/boot/pingpong
how can i do this in new grub version...? i tried adding the following to /etc/grub.d/40_custom but failed...
menuentry "L4Ka:istachio" {
set root=(hd0,9)
kernel=/boot/kickstart[code ]..........
So after installing Ubuntu 11.04 with Fedora Beta 15, I decided it would be a good idea to get a *buntu based distro in case of anything. So I reinstalled it in the form of Xubuntu, and I see that Grub found my Windows 7 install, but not my Fedora install! Here is the output of fdisk -l:
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Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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i had ubuntu and slackware installed together for a while, i just needed xp to do some native language work so i installed it on my extra partition but then i messed up the grub menu, however i reinstalled it from live cd.. but now the problem is i dont know how to add a xp in that.
i'll give you my fdisk -ls output :
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/dev/sda1 1 12803 102840066 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 12804 14267 11759580 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 14268 15035 6168960 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 * 15036 19457 35519715 7 HPFS/NTFS
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I've got a laptop I use for various things. I have one SATA HD with a number of partitions on it. It looks like this.
sda2 = System Reserved (Flag=boot)
sda3 = Windows 7
sda4 = extended
sda5 = Ubuntu
sda6 = WinXP
I started off with Win7 on there and added Ubuntu. Everything went fine and Grub added Win7 and I could boot to both. Since then I had to add WinXP. That wiped out Grub which I read it would. I tried adding Grub back which was unsuccessful so I just reinstalled Ubuntu which re-installed Grub, but not Win7 doesn't boot from the menu when I select it. Since then I've been trying to add Win7 and WinXP back into Grub with zero success. In addition I add the following which did not work.
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I installed Win7 on a 2-disk RAID0 fakeraid. I then unplugged those drives and installed linux mint on a separate drive. I did it this way because if I left the drives plugged in, linux would jack up the fakeraid for those drives and make windows upbootable, and installing linux to the fakeraid itself is just too much of a PITA. So basically, this is the disk configuration, and there's no chance of me changing it.
Right now, I can boot into either win7 or mint by pressing F12 for the boot menu, and then selecting the drive the os is installed on. It would be nice if I could just add an entry to the grub menu for win7. I've used the menu.lst file before, but apparently all that has changed with grub2. I've checked out some of the grub2 docs and poked around in /etc/grub.d, but frankly, it seems to be orders of magnitude more complicated than it should be.
Is it possible to add menu entries for older kernels to boot instead of the latest?
I have tried this in Ubuntu 10.04 and it hasn't worked.
This used to be possible with ease in grub legacy.
I copied the current menu entry from /boot/grub/grub.cfg and pasted it in the /etc/grub.d/ 20_custom file.
Then I changed the kernel number to the older kernel number and the initrd number too. #update-grub puts this entry into 'grub.cfg', but it doesn't work.
I get:
The old kernel is in /boot as well as the respective initrd and config files.
I've noticed grub2 has modular structure. Is it possible to insert other Kernel modules into grub? Or can write my own modules to insert into grub?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have extracted the files from a bootable CD to /dev/sdc2/bootable/winpwrec with the hope of booting from the hard drive. I have read the grub.cfg file and a couple of guides here and I'm still not sure what I'm doing. Is there any chance someone can tell me what I need to add to the grub.cfg file to add this to the boot menu? I am pretty well-versed in computers but I'm new to Linux and I'm still trying to get acquainted with the OS, terminology, and the boot loader. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, if that matters.
files in the folder:
BOOT.CAT;1 ISOLINUX.BIN;1 SCSI.CGZ;1
BOOT.MSG;1 ISOLINUX.CFG;1 SYSLINUX.CFG;1 VMLINUZ.;1
INITRD.CGZ;1 README.TXT;1 SYSLINUX.EXE;1
isolinux.cfg
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#serial 0 19200
I like to load other distro's via their own grub.
So at the min I add an entry to code...
however when update-grub2 is run it also adds its own entries (for arch linux).
Is there a way to stop the update-grub2 script automatically adding a entry on a specific partition ?
I have a working Ubuntu install with the Grub2 bootloader. I need to manually add an entry to boot Fedora 13 off of sda. Sda1 is the boot partition, sda2 is LVM. None of the examples I've tried work. I do also have F13 grub installed on sda, but chainloading to it didn't do anything other than a blinking cursor.
View 5 Replies View Relatedi initilally installed ubuntu 9.10 then installed windows 7 ,then i recovered grub2 using livecd as told in the post [URL] i did "sudo update-grub" and got windows 7 menu entry but when i select that entry windows 7 does not load but the grub2 is reloaded again.
i cant boot to windows 7.
Windows 7 have 100 mb partition "System Reserved" the grub2 points to that partition but still windows 7 not loaded.
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3c3a81f5
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I went through so many post but I haven't found the proper answer yet hope you have an Idea1. Grub2 saves only Linux OS as last selected no Windows OS2.It is possible to boot into a cdrom (drive)?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed Fedora 15, which was my first real departure from Debian based Linux OSs. I absolutely love the new Gnome 3, and was able to configure F15 to work as I wanted it to. On rebooting I realized that there was no boot loader screen, that F15 just booted and didn't give me a choice as to which OS I wanted to use. Eventually I was able to configure grub to let me see the boot loader and added my old boot loader as a choice. This worked well, maybe not a perfect solution, but it worked. This weekend I installed LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) to another HDD. LMDE uses grub2 and after the install F15 was not recognized.
Two questions: Is there a way for grub2 to see F15? or Can F15 be installed using grub2? I really don't mind re-installing from scratch.
I want to load grub2 from grub4dos.I want to load directly the grub2 core. I know how to load first 512 bytes from some patition by chainloader and load grub2, but what I need is to load directly grub2 core without passing by bootstriping code (first 512 bytes).So, my first boot manager is grub4dos, then I can load grub2 and later I load Ubuntu. But I think I have to edit --set-root
What I dont know is how.
In hdd 0,7 (sda8) I have Ubuntu 10.10 and /boot/grub/core.img is in sda8 (hd0.7)
I tried this way:
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title grub2
find --set-root /boot/grub/core.img
kernel /boot/grub/core.img
Is there a way to set a key map in grub2? I know you could do it in grub1 with the setkey option, but that doesn't seem to work in grub2.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI tried searching for this both in the forums and on google but it seems that everything goes back to MBR installation. I know that "grub-install /dev/sda1" should install it to the sda1 partition, but instead of installing it keeps giving me the following error:
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grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub.
No path or device is specified.
Try ``grub-probe --help'' for more information.
Auto-detection of a filesystem module failed.
Please specify the module with the option `--modules' explicitly.
I tried this with a fresh installation of Karmic on both of my PCs. I tried with --recheck option as well, same error. Installing it to MBR works fine, but I don't want it there, have another bootloader chainloading grub. Every single guide I found installs GRUB2 to MBR, and some briefly reference to "grub-install /dev/sdaX" without going into any detail. At first I thought the problem was because Ubuntu was installed on a logical partition, so I created a separate /boot partition and formatted it as ext2, still getting the same problem.
Grub2 fails when trying to boot into Win 7 from Grub2 menu. No such a device. I did run boot_info_script055.sh Here is the result:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================ Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks for
(UUID=34c6661d-7609-441c-b7b9-1d60d1e44fd5)/boot/grub.
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I am in the process of trying out different Linux distros. This is what my hard drive partitions look like:
sda1 - Ubuntu
(Free space - about 150 GB)
sda3 - Windows (sadly)
sda4 - Windows Recovery
I successfully installed Fedora to the free space, which is now sda2, but when I was installing, I chose to keep my current bootloader so it wouldn't mess anything up. Now, I can't get Grub to detect my Fedora install, even after running 'update-grub' from the current Grub root (sda1).How can I get Grub to detect my Fedora install?
Once again an update broke my Lucid When I start my laptop, I can't see the options to choose a kernal or Windows as I used to see before. know my grub is deleted or overwritten after recent automatic update (on 27th May 10). Now I have a bootable 10.04 CD.Please let me know how to recover the grub2. I don't want to reinstall my linux or windows.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have decided to dual boot again because I found a old hard drive laying around.
primary drive: sata 500 gb
ubuntu 10.4 64 bit installed with
boot
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secondary drive: 120 gb ide drive with xp installed. xp was installed first and wrote the mbr to sda1. I then installed ubuntu 10.4 and it overwrote mbr on sda with grub2. I have tried every combination of the 40_custom script for xp I have found here on the forums but to no avail. The 30_OS probe never seems to see it either. Grub 2 will not see xp. I have it in the menu from the custom_40 but it just reboots the system when I choose it. Any advice is greatly appreciated as I am ready to go back to legacy grub which only took 5 minutes to dual boot last time I did dual boot. I want to give grub2 a chance, since it supposed to be better, but I am getting frustrated.
Here is the output from the boot info script.
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #1 for /boot/grub.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
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I'm a hardcore ubuntu user and have ubuntu 10.04 on my dell Inspiron 1525. I dual booted it with fedora 13 recently and fedora grub has wiped out ubuntu grub2. I want to re-install grub2.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIntalled GRUB using Live CD. My problem is very similar to these..
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1. sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
2. sudo mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
3. sudo mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
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I have made a new /boot/grub/grub.conf file.
How do I write it to MBR? Do I have to be running from CD?
I can't find new Grub2 instructions anywhere.
After the nightmare of installing Ubuntu10.04 as my second os, with windows 7, dual booting using grub 2 ( GRUB PUTS NOT FOUND). I am using wubi and the win 7 bootloader, I still have the splash screen of grub 2 after I select Ubuntu off the win7 boot loader. I really don't think I need this. Could I get rid of the grub 2 loader, it really doesn't serve any purpose except take up boot up time? go easy, it took me a while to figure out how to shorten the DEFAULT boot load time in grub 2
View 2 Replies View RelatedThere are 2 osx entries in the grub menu one is 32-bit and the other is 64-bit, how i can get rid of the 32-bit one? i am using ubuntu 10.4 and snow leopard 10.6.3
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI have an acer aspire one. I had iPC osx86 10.5.6 installed on it. then I installed ubuntu 10.04.1 and now i cant get OSX to start up. OSx shows up in grub but when i select it i just get a blank screen.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to figure out how to start Ubuntu without a GUI with grub2 (I had it figured out for legacy GRUB). Done several searches, and there are a few threads, but they all give different advice that I either don't understand or that don't work.
I tried editing /etc/default/grub with GRUB_TERMINAL=console then updated grub. gdm still loads automatically. I'm probably one of those people "The Idiot's Guide" were written for,can you tell me specifically where the configuration file is that I may have to edit, and exactly what goes on the line that I have to edit? And what does "editing on the fly mean?" I see that a lot in these GRUB tutorials.
Small issue with grub 2. I installed fedora on a usb drive and i'm trying to get it to boot from grub 2. I did update-grub and it found the kernel on /dev/sdd2 but for some reason it is trying to point the kernel file to /boot directory in grub but the kernel is on the usb drive and when i try to set it to look at the usb drive it says file not found.
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