Install GRUB through Knoppix?

[oosterhouse]

I'm trying to re-do GRUB because it only recognizes suse 10 and windows, not my pclinuxos. How do I do this in knoppix, or is there a different easy way to do it? Thanks.

[St. Joe]

Re-doing grub can mean to reconfigure or install again. I gather you mean to reinstall. In that case do the following:

Mount the partition (provide the correct HD notation for hdax):
# mount -o dev,rw /mnt/hdax

If it's already mounted, remount it like this:
# mount -o remount,dev,rw /mnt/hdax

Now, restore grub like this:
# chroot /mnt/hda1 grub-install /dev/hda

If the chroot method doesn't work, try remounting as outlined above and do:
# grub-install -root-directory=/mnt/hda1 /dev/hda

[oz]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question, but it sounds like you are wanting to add PCLinuxOS to your grub menu. Is that correct?

If so, just edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to include your pclinuxos distribution. You can use your Suse entry as a working example of how the entry should look, but you have to modify that to fit the partitions/kernel used by pclinuxos.

Hope that made sense.