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| Thread ID: 140126 | 2015-08-22 00:16:00 | Multi-booting menu problem with Linux | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1407175 | 2015-08-27 10:49:00 | If you can boot into a linux, run (as root) update-grub && grub-install /dev/sda(assuming the machine boots from sda) Should make all OS's available from the grub menu on startup. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1407176 | 2015-08-27 13:23:00 | If you can boot into an existing Linux do that, if you boot from a Live CD, you need to chroot to the existing Linux then run those commands. Cheers, KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1407177 | 2015-08-30 03:56:00 | After a lot of experimenting, reading (thanks for the pointers in this thread) and general faffing around I now have something that works, but I'd like to smarten it a bit. When I boot, I get this menu: 6718 If I select "Linux", I get this menu: 6719 and I can then get to either of my Linux distros. So far so hoopy, but I'd like to clean up the GRUB stuff by removing the loop back to windows and also the "advanced options" stuff. I can't find how to actually edit that menu. I've found "grub.cfg" but that is read-only with all sorts of dire warnings in it. I'm also not entirely sure where menu.lst is stored (which partition). How do I establish that? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1407178 | 2015-08-30 04:55:00 | You are using grub2 so there is no menu.lst. You can edit grub.cfg by hand, but any 'update-grub' command will overwrite it - the recommended method is to adjust the settings in /etc/default/grub then use 'update-grub' to write the grub.cfg file. As to which linux is in charge ... it will be the last one to execute a 'grub-install' command. The package 'boot-info-script' (should be available in the Mint repo's) should provide all the info you need. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1407179 | 2015-08-31 00:15:00 | At last! I've got everything the way I want it. I found a thing called grub-customizer that let me edit the menu entries and also change the appearance slightly. Thanks again for all the help. I'm really not out to start a flame war here, but this whole process has rather confirmed my aversion to Linux. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1407180 | 2015-08-31 01:46:00 | Ahh, but you still learnt something ;) | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1407181 | 2015-08-31 04:06:00 | Ahh, but you still learnt something ;)You mean that I still don't like Linux? :):) | Tony (4941) | ||
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