[SOLVED] Boot menu grub grub2 can't add dual boot

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[SOLVED] Boot menu grub grub2 can't add dual boot

Postby dirkme » Mar 22nd, '17, 17:25

Hello again,

I just wonder, I had Ubuntu and Centos installed on my laptop and installed Mageia 32Bit, which runs wonderfull and at the lowest memory usage I have ever seen (LXDE)

However, Mageia boot loader did not add options for the other operating systems and everything Linux like:

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grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg


just don't work.

The Control Center boot menu doesn't do anything either and when I want to add Ubuntu manually, it ask me for an image which isn't shown, so that is a no go.

Help ;-) :o
Last edited by dirkme on Mar 22nd, '17, 20:39, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Boot menu grub grub2 can't add dual boot :o

Postby Bequimao » Mar 22nd, '17, 17:53

Hello,

What about
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# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg


Please use code tags and post the command and the full output.

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Re: Boot menu grub grub2 can't add dual boot :o

Postby dirkme » Mar 22nd, '17, 19:20

I get this for it: bash: grub2-mkconfig: command not found

How do I do code tags?
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Re: Boot menu grub grub2 can't add dual boot :o

Postby isadora » Mar 22nd, '17, 19:42

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Re: Boot menu grub grub2 can't add dual boot :o

Postby dirkme » Mar 22nd, '17, 20:15



fixed the code thing thanks
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Re: Boot menu grub grub2 can't add dual boot :o

Postby doktor5000 » Mar 22nd, '17, 20:16

Do you use grub legacy or grub2 on your Mageia installation?

For grub legacy, you can add other bootloaders via chainloading, see http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/5/en/content/drakboot.html
Select add new entry, then other OS (windows) and select the partition where the other bootloader is installed.
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Re: Boot menu grub grub2 can't add dual boot :o

Postby dirkme » Mar 22nd, '17, 20:37

doktor5000 wrote:Do you use grub legacy or grub2 on your Mageia installation?

For grub legacy, you can add other bootloaders via chainloading, see http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/5/en/content/drakboot.html
Select add new entry, then other OS (windows) and select the partition where the other bootloader is installed.



Thank you, that helped, I chose GRUB2 and it installed GRUB2 now as boot loader and ll my OSes are idnetified and listed.

Thank all of you for your help

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Re: [SOLVED] Boot menu grub grub2 can't add dual boot

Postby gohlip » Mar 23rd, '17, 06:49

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# update-grub
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