Where would we all be if not for drs305? aka "Mr Grub" on the forum and wiki area :) Do pass my regards on, next time you're 'chatting'.
Phill. On 17 March 2012 13:46, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 March 2012 13:17, Piskie <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 17/03/12 12:15, Liam Proven wrote: > >> > >> 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. > >> > > 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: [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/ > > -- > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > >
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