Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote:
> On 01/28/14 12:13, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote:
>>> Hopefully, I'm posting to the right list...my Duck-Duck-Go/Google-fu has
>>> finally abandoned me.
>>>
>>> My (B)LFS system is complete and screaming right along, except for one
>>> little issue...GRUB.
>>>
>>> I had originally installed Mint 15 to be my host for LFS build. Mint's
>>> grub properly detected the Win 7 partition, and when I was finished with
>>> LFS, detected that as well.
>>>
>>> I haven't been back to either Mint or Win 7 since my original LFS boot,
>>> and I would really like to have all the GRUB info/configs on my BLFS
>>> system, but really have no idea (and can't seem to locate any hints) to
>>> accomplish this.
>>>
>>> Ideas or pointers would be deeply appreciated.
>>
>> GRUB was built in LFS Chapter 6 and the configuration covered in LFS
>> Chapter 8. If you already installed GRUB, I hope you made a copy of
>> grub.cfg. You can try to run grub-mkconfig to see if it finds mint
>> and W7. Make a backup of a working grub.cfg first.
>>
>>-- Bruce
>>
>>
>
>
> I heeded the very *first* warning in Chap 8.4. All of the grub
> configuration/information is in the /boot directory in the mint
> partition. I didn't install grub on LFS.
That's fine, but the LFS kernel needs to be in mint's /boot. That type
of problem is one reason why I always recommend a separate /boot
partition. That way all distros use the same one.
> Then there is this, from grub info:
>
> * At least on BIOS systems, if you tell `grub-install' to install grub
> to a partition but grub has already been installed in the master boot
> record, then the grub installation in the partition will be ignored.
I don't know how GRUB would install itself to a partition. I don't know
where there is space.
> Anyway, I went ahead and installed grub and overwrote the MBR. Booted
> fine, but mkconfig did not find the mint or win7 partitions.
That's because it only looked in the LFS /boot directory.
> I copied
> over the menu entries from the mint partition and all is ok.
I would expect that.
-- Bruce
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