On 17 March 2012 02:43, Piskie <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven >> MSN: [email protected] • 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. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
