On 17 March 2012 13:17, Piskie <ub.u...@btinternet.com> wrote: > On 17/03/12 12:15, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> On 17 March 2012 02:43, Piskie<ub.u...@btinternet.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 17/03/12 01:47, Liam Proven wrote: >>>> >>>> I asked this on the other list, possibly by mistake. >>>> >>>> I have installed beta 1 of Lubuntu 12.04 on an old PC I'm planning to >>>> give >>>> away. >>>> >>>> The only thing that is not flawless about it is that GRUB2 has not >>>> picked up that the primary partition on hard disk 0 contains MS-DOS - >>>> 7.1, specifically, from a Windows 98SE recovery floppy. It's a small >>>> install - just the core utils in a \DOS directory - but when I run >>>> `update-grub` it appears not to notice it at all. >>>> >>>> Is there any way of manually adding an OS to GRUB2? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile >>>> Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven >>>> MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven >>>> Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 >>>> >>> Yes - you need to edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom and add the stanza there. >>> >>> Something like >>> >>> >>> menuentry "msdos622 on sda1" { >>> insmod chain >>> insmod fat >>> set root=(hd0,1) >>> chainloader +1 >>> } >>> >>> >>> Change the partition numbering to suit you. >>> >>> Then you need to run sudo update-grub. >>> >>> Hope that helps >> >> Very cool indeed - I will try it and report back. Thanks! >> >>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10275310&postcount=3 >> >> Bah. Clearly my Google-fu is too weak. I did try searching - quite >> thoroughly, I thought - before asking. >> > I was not able to sleep so I had some time :)
:¬D > I also have a bunch of grub2 links bookmarked - the change from grub threw > me sideways for a while, not sure that I have recovered yet. I agree! And personally I found LILO easier to configure than GRUB, but GRUB2 is definitely harder than GRUB1 was. > One of the grub guy' on the forum is one of my staff compadres - so I have a > back door as well :) Now that /is/ handy. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
