Solved: Add other distros manually to mageia bootloader

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Hi everybody,

I'm going to install opensuse Leap alongside my Mageia 5 and Windows 8.1,
The problem is that opensuse doesn't appear in mageia Grub2 bootloader and i cannot add it manually too,
I was told to use ext4 instead of btrfs filesystem, but it didn't resolve the issue as well.

PS1: in Opensuse forum, i was told to ask this question in Mageia forum, so i might find a better clue.
(https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/511872-Leap-doesn-t-boot-with-Mageia-and-Win-8-1)

PS2: the output of my fdisk -l:

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Device     Boot     Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *         2048     718847     716800   350M  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2          718848  103119371  102400524  48.8G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       103119513 1953520064 1850400552 882.3G  f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5       103119576 1953520064 1850400489 882.3G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/sdb: 111.8 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x1c00112d

Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1            2048 117221375 117219328 55.9G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2  *    117223422 234436544 117213123 55.9G  f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5       117223424 192493567  75270144 35.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6       192495616 215564287  23068672   11G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb7       215566336 234434559  18868224    9G 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x055b055a

Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1       882563072 920252415  37689344    18G 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2  *    920252416 976773119  56520704    27G 83 Linux
/dev/sdc3           16069 882562904 882546836 420.9G  f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdc5           16132 841581089 841564958 401.3G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdc6       841584640 882561023  40976384  19.6G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT


Any help greatly appreciated

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Oh,
I found the solution in changing the boot order in BIOS (set the third one (/dev/sdc) first)
I dunno why Mageia Grub2 didn't find the Leap, but changing the order in Bios made Opensuse to take the control, where all three OSs are available.

[doktor5000]

Might still be helpful if you created a bugreport for that against our grub2 so that we can see why that happens and eventually fix it.
Would probably help if you attach the output of update-grub there.

See https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly