[SOLVED] Triple boot ok, except for Ubuntu...

[buccaneere]

I had dual boot XP/Ubuntu on HD(x) and HD(y).

I put in a PCI/ IDE controller card, loaded PCLOS on HD(z) on the controller card. Now, PCLOS boots fine, XP boots fine, but Ubuntu is MIA (no GRUB entry).

Help?

[rokytnji]

I ran into something like this with my Triple boot Puppy,Ubuntu, Nimble X install. In Ubuntus Grub Mnu it showed Puppy as Unknown Linux Operating System. What I had to do was go into Ubuntus Grub Menu using Gedit in Terminal. Then I had to go into Puppys grub boot menu and copy and paste the boot enties into Ubuntus grub menu. I only had to edit 2 Lines of the menu and it was obvious where the differences were, I can't tell you what lines you may need to edit. All I can say is since PCLOS boots fine that the grub menu you are going to gedit in Terminal is PCLOS. I did this work around on my own with common sense and guess work. That is why I can't give you a detailed what to type in terminal step by step on how to get Ubuntu to boot. I bet if you burn a supergrubdisk and boot it up it will find Ubuntus grub loader and boot up Ubuntu. You can try using Ubuntus grub menu to see if PCLOS shows up on it. I fought this for a few days and never opened a thread on it so I can't refer you to a link on how I solved this. All I know is that what I just described fixed it. Sorry I can't be of much more help to you. Good Luck.

[buccaneere]

I ran into something like this with my Triple boot Puppy,Ubuntu, Nimble X install. In Ubuntus Grub Mnu it showed Puppy as Unknown Linux Operating System. What I had to do was go into Ubuntus Grub Menu using Gedit in Terminal. Then I had to go into Puppys grub boot menu and copy and paste the boot enties into Ubuntus grub menu. I only had to edit 2 Lines of the menu and it was obvious where the differences were, I can't tell you what lines you may need to edit. All I can say is since PCLOS boots fine that the grub menu you are going to gedit in Terminal is PCLOS. I did this work around on my own with common sense and guess work. That is why I can't give you a detailed what to type in terminal step by step on how to get Ubuntu to boot. I bet if you burn a supergrubdisk and boot it up it will find Ubuntus grub loader and boot up Ubuntu. You can try using Ubuntus grub menu to see if PCLOS shows up on it. I fought this for a few days and never opened a thread on it so I can't refer you to a link on how I solved this. All I know is that what I just described fixed it. Sorry I can't be of much more help to you. Good Luck.

Hi roky!

I have attempted exactly as you described - don't know how I figured that out, but...

So the Ubuntu menu.lst entry looks like this;

title		Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-23-generic
root		(hd1,0)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-23-generic root=UUID=c750b94d-415d-4015-8d90-54500d601b5d ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-23-generic
quiet

But the native PCLOS menu.lst entry looks like this:

title linux
kernel (hd2,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hdf1  acpi=on resume=/dev/hdf5 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd2,0)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd2,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hdf1  acpi=on resume=/dev/hdf5
initrd (hd2,0)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd2,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=/dev/hdf1  failsafe acpi=on resume=/dev/hdf5
initrd (hd2,0)/boot/initrd.img

title windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

I tried to copy and paste, and change it around a little to resemble the PCLOS entry, but 'NO CAN SAVE'! Permission denied.

What's the PCLOS command line entry to edit the menu.lst?
Just like Ubuntu? sudo gedit menu.lst ???

[rokytnji]

Yeah, I remember opening Terminal (which you will do In PCLOS) and starting off with

sudo Gedit /boot/grub/menu lst

I can't remember if I used the small g or Big G for gedit. I am just a biker running Linux so if my commands don't work, play around with em a little. I just know you have to be root to edit settings in the root file system where boot/grub/menu lst resides. I figured it out by opening all kinds of Winows. First I would open root. Then Iwould open boot. Then grub. Then Menu lst. That way I would know what order to type the command in. I hope you understand.

[rokytnji]

For PCLOS you might have to use su instead of sudo. I'm on my AntiX Laptop right now and I don't run PCLOS as you can see from my Sig.

[buccaneere]

For PCLOS you might have to use su instead of sudo. I'm on my AntiX Laptop right now and I don't run PCLOS as you can see from my Sig.

I found 'Terminal - run as super user', but I don't know the name of the editor app. I tried su, sudo, open, Gedit, gedit, Kedit, KDEedit...

I know how you said is the right way too, cause I'm on the same track...

[rokytnji]

This is where you need a PCLOS expert and looking at who is online tonight, most of the good tech advisors are offline right now. Just be patient I guess and google how to edit PCLOS boot/grub/menu lst and you might find the answer on your own maybe.

[buccaneere]

Found something called nano.

But nano menu.lst brought up the editor, and created a file 'menu.lst'.

Filepath is wrong, how to exit???

[rokytnji]

Solved: grub boot edit - Tech Support Guy Forums

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[buccaneere]

GOT IT!!!

nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

Now, only need to translate the 'other' grub entry into the PCLOS grub entry, from first post.

???