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|  | [SOLVED] Grub doctor question
« Thread Started on Apr 12, 2012, 8:45pm » | |
Apr 11, 2012, 9:57pm, Anthony Nordquist wrote:| Fixing grub is actually rather easy with SalineOS, just boot up the live dvd/usb and run Applications > System > grub-doctor and then follow the prompts on the screen. |
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I purchased (due to bandwidth limitations) a SalineOS 1.6 DVD for the purpose of fixing my grub menus with Grub Doctor. It arrived in my mail today and I immediately fired it up. I have two hdds and three distributions on my system: sda1 is a WXP partition, rarely used but for playing some .avi files that I can't get VLC linux to play. Sdb1 is my SalineOS partition and sdb3 is a debian sid distro. sdb2 is my linux swap partition.
I booted up the DVD and ran Grub Doctor and selected sdb1 as the root for my linux partition.
I then selected sdb as the disk to instal grub to and ran the program. It finished and I rebooted after removing the DVD and the grub menu came up with nothing but the SalineOS partition.
Undaunted, I tried it again using the mbr of sda as the site of the grub installation. This time, it found the WXP partition and listed SalineOS and Wndows but ignored my sid partition.
How to get all three partitions recognized?
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| | Re: Grub doctor question
« Reply #1 on Apr 12, 2012, 9:34pm » | |
The simple solution is to boot up the installed SalineOS system, open a root terminal and run the command update-grub
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| | Re: Grub doctor question
« Reply #2 on Apr 14, 2012, 12:11am » | |
That actually worked this time. I had tried it before but now that I look back, can't say which partition I ran it from or if live or installed. Thanks Anthony. Nice to be able to access all three from the same grub menu and not have to use "Ultimate Boot CD" or SuperGrub. Its also nice to have Squeeze/SalinleOS and sid readily available...different virtues and vices. Saline is the easy, reliable tool most of the time but in some cases, the sid packages work better, as with icedove and xsane.
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| | Re: [SOLVED] Grub doctor question
« Reply #3 on Apr 14, 2012, 4:24pm » | |
Apr 14, 2012, 12:11am, wh7qq wrote:| That actually worked this time. I had tried it before but now that I look back, can't say which partition I ran it from or if live or installed. Thanks Anthony. Nice to be able to access all three from the same grub menu and not have to use "Ultimate Boot CD" or SuperGrub. Its also nice to have Squeeze/SalinleOS and sid readily available...different virtues and vices. Saline is the easy, reliable tool most of the time but in some cases, the sid packages work better, as with icedove and xsane. |
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Please post what scanner you have.
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