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| 1276636 | 2012-05-21 10:03:00 | On this PC I have Win7, Win8, Vista and now Linux, all on different physical disks. Linux was the last one to be installed. Pre-Linux I had the "standard" windows multi-boot selection menu. However I couldn't get it to include Linux. The best I have managed is that when I boot, I get the Grub menu, with 3 options - Linux, Linux safe mode and windows. If I select windows I then get my original windows multi-boot menu. This works, but it is untidy. I've tried to use EasyBCD to set up a Linux entry, but it won't work. I create a new entry and point it to the Linux partition, but when I boot and try to select that option, all I get is a black screen and a blinking cursor. What I would like is to have just one menu, preferably not Grub, that gives me the three windows and Linux. Anyone out there who can help? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1276637 | 2012-05-21 10:45:00 | I don't think this is possible. GRUB will boot Linux directly but if you want to boot MS Windows you "chain load" - in other words GRUB passes the booting onto the Windows boot loader to do the job. You can start with the Windows boot loader first but this is not as easy. | johnd (85) | ||
| 1276638 | 2012-05-21 11:14:00 | If you can get GRUB 2 installed onto the Linux partition and have that boot Linux, it should be easy to get EasyBCD chainloading that. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1276639 | 2012-05-21 11:22:00 | If you can get GRUB 2 installed onto the Linux partition and have that boot Linux, it should be easy to get EasyBCD chainloading that.This is PCLinuxOS, and if I understand it correctly (and it is entirely possible that I don't), it uses Grub, not Grub2. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1276640 | 2012-05-21 11:25:00 | Yes. Process would be something like grub-install /dev/sda5 or whatever your Linux partition is. Then it should be able to be chain loaded from EasyBCD | johnd (85) | ||
| 1276641 | 2012-05-21 23:00:00 | Yes. Process would be something like grub-install /dev/sda5 or whatever your Linux partition is. Then it should be able to be chain loaded from EasyBCDI'm grateful for the advice, but as a total Linux noob, that means nothing to me.:confused: | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1276642 | 2012-05-22 02:29:00 | It means install grub to the partition, not the MBR, then EasyBCD 'should' be able to chainload it - but that is a "Windows" issue ... :) | fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1276643 | 2012-05-22 04:12:00 | It means install grub to the partition, not the MBR, then EasyBCD 'should' be able to chainload it - but that is a "Windows" issue ... :)I'm dead ignorant about Linux. How do I "install grub to the partition"? | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1276644 | 2012-05-22 04:22:00 | as root: grub-install /dev/sdc1 or whatever disk/partition is your PCLOS '/' partition. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1276645 | 2012-05-22 05:01:00 | Or from what I understand, open a Terminal (in Ubuntu at least you can press Ctrl+Alt+T), then type "sudo grub-install /dev/sdc1", replacing sdc1 with the drive and partition Linux is installed on. Then, in EasyBCD, add a Linux entry and select the same partition (it'll be the bigger of the two unlabelled ones in Windows). HTH :) |
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