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by **pierssnell** on Mon May 07, 2012 12:16 pm

Help sought (please!) with stanzas for a grub legacy installation...

Aim: to run a multiboot setup with Windows98, Mint, Ubuntu and Puppy, (plus space for one more to try out magazine-cover live-CD offerings).

Partition scheme is
Primary /dev/sda1 fat32 (boot, lba)
Primary /dev/sda2 ext3 (ext3 for sda5 to 11 also)
Extended /dev/sda3, to include
--- sda5 for a linux installation
--- sda6 to 8, smaller partitions for /boot partitions
--- sda9 to 11, partitions for linux installations
--- sda12 for data
Primary /dev/sda4, swap space at end of drive

HDD hardware by the way is a single EIDE (I think!) 160Gb drive; I'm aware that older BIOS (which would probably include mine) might have an issue reading beyond 137Gb, but none of the partitions containing my installations goes that high. FWIW, all the live-CD sessions I've had open seem to be able to navigate just where they want to, so somehow or other, the BIOS is coping!

Installed so far;
Windows on sda1
Ubuntu on /dev/sda2 (/boot) and /dev/sda5 (/everything else)
Mint on /dev/sda6 (/boot) and /dev/sda9 (/everything else)
Puppy on /dev/sda10 (/everything -- installation didn't offer options of separate partition for /boot)

After endless misery with grub2 from numerous different sources, none of which got me even to first base, I got an Ubuntu 9.04 installation working, which successfully installed grub-legacy to /dev/sda, and this grub successfully boots W98 and Ubuntu. If it's any clue, the various flavours of grub2 never got further than (variously) Error 5, Error 18, Error 22 or "no such partition".

But I'd dearly like to get further than these two -- especially if it means I can run Mint, which I very much like the look of. I've been running grub up with no end of experiments, including quite a few by means of editing the lines within grub, but apart from the Ubuntu and W98 ones, all I ever get is "press any key..." and a return to the menu. The menu.lst quoted below is the one that Ubuntu set up for me, with the lines ######## where I've been meddling.

Ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Piers.

Code: Select all: title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic uuid 0e944e90-669f-4f19-af8e-67f85863575d kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=af8510b0-1c80-441e-be3d-44e25c466490 ro quiet splash initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic quiet title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode) uuid 0e944e90-669f-4f19-af8e-67f85863575d kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=af8510b0-1c80-441e-be3d-44e25c466490 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+ uuid 0e944e90-669f-4f19-af8e-67f85863575d kernel /memtest86+.bin quiet ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating systems: root ###### these lines are the ones I've tried a few different ideas with, but nothing seems to work! title Mint on /dev/sda6+9 (/boot on sda6, / on sda9) root (hd0,5) ###### (also tried 0,8) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic initrd /boot/initrd-3.0.0-12-generic title Puppy 528 on /dev/sda10 root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda10 pmedia=atahd # (puppy doesn't use initrd -- don't know what they*do* use where others use initrd, but their guidance is quite clear on this issue) ###### # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda1 title Windows 95/98/Me rootnoverify (hd0,0) savedefault chainloader +1

Code: Select all: /dev/sda1: LABEL="DISK1_VOL1" UUID="2445-1B06" TYPE="vfat" /dev/sda2: UUID="0e944e90-669f-4f19-af8e-67f85863575d" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="Ubu boot" /dev/sda4: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap" UUID="2684f5bc-ea35-4f72-88c9-912c2b858d74" /dev/sda5: UUID="af8510b0-1c80-441e-be3d-44e25c466490" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="Ubu" /dev/sda6: UUID="54808af1-e1ef-40b3-85d8-358f6b69d4ca" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda7: LABEL="Puppy boot (unus" UUID="940e1118-7711-4eae-9d7f-3cc4a419ee86" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda8: LABEL="spare boot" UUID="8b628729-9632-401e-8c16-99ddb09f45a0" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda9: UUID="1f7f3e2f-7932-4c64-8529-ae4cb2f3471d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda10: LABEL="Puppy" UUID="8335f00b-52d1-4358-a55b-ead75ae3d72c" TYPE="ext3" SEC_TYPE="ext2" /dev/sda11: LABEL="spare" UUID="dbefe696-2fa4-4156-b5fc-3f59659ee327" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda12: LABEL="Shared data" UUID="75a7120b-52df-4fbf-bb5f-b3a4a474797e" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

by **wayne128** on Mon May 07, 2012 12:26 pm

Lets try the Mint partition first:

You have:

title Mint on /dev/sda6+9 (/boot on sda6, / on sda9)
root (hd0,5) ###### (also tried 0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic
initrd /boot/initrd-3.0.0-12-generic

Now run ubuntu on sda2, when it is running, open terminal and do this command

sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
cat /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg

post their output here...

by **pierssnell** on Mon May 07, 2012 1:20 pm

Thanks Wayne;

Um, sorry, took a while, because I had to work out that mounting sda6 got me /mnt/grub/grub.cfg rather than /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg -- could it be that it's because /dev/sda6 *IS* the /boot directory? (Or is that what's causing the mischief?)

Anyway, this is what it looks like...

Code: Select all: # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then set have_grubenv=true load_env fi set default="0" if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}" save_env saved_entry set prev_saved_entry= save_env prev_saved_entry set boot_once=true fi function savedefault { if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then saved_entry="${chosen}" save_env saved_entry fi } function recordfail { set recordfail=1 if [ -n "${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi } function load_video { insmod vbe insmod vga insmod video_bochs insmod video_cirrus } insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos9)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1f7f3e2f-7932-4c64-8529-ae4cb2f3471d if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then set gfxmode=auto load_video insmod gfxterm insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos6)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 54808af1-e1ef-40b3-85d8-358f6b69d4ca set locale_dir=($root)/grub/locale set lang=en_GB insmod gettext fi terminal_output gfxterm if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ]; then set timeout=-1 else set timeout=10 fi ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### set menu_color_normal=white/black set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray if background_color 0,0,0; then clear fi ### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/06_mint_theme ### set menu_color_normal=white/black set menu_color_highlight=white/light-gray ### END /etc/grub.d/06_mint_theme ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### if [ ${recordfail} != 1 ]; then if [ -e ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt ]; then if hwmatch ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt 3; then if [ ${match} = 0 ]; then set linux_gfx_mode=keep else set linux_gfx_mode=text fi else set linux_gfx_mode=text fi else set linux_gfx_mode=keep fi else set linux_gfx_mode=text fi export linux_gfx_mode if [ "$linux_gfx_mode" != "text" ]; then load_video; fi menuentry 'Linux Mint 12 32-bit, 3.0.0-12-generic (/dev/sda6)' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { recordfail set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode insmod gzio insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos6)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 54808af1-e1ef-40b3-85d8-358f6b69d4ca linux /vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=1f7f3e2f-7932-4c64-8529-ae4cb2f3471d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 initrd /initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic } menuentry 'Linux Mint 12 32-bit, 3.0.0-12-generic (/dev/sda6) -- recovery mode' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { recordfail insmod gzio insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos6)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 54808af1-e1ef-40b3-85d8-358f6b69d4ca echo 'Loading Linux 3.0.0-12-generic ...' linux /vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=1f7f3e2f-7932-4c64-8529-ae4cb2f3471d ro recovery nomodeset echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic } ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_lupin ### ### END /etc/grub.d/10_lupin ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ### ### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ### menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos6)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 54808af1-e1ef-40b3-85d8-358f6b69d4ca linux16 /memtest86+.bin } menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos6)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 54808af1-e1ef-40b3-85d8-358f6b69d4ca linux16 /memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8 } ### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### menuentry "Windows 95/98/Me (on /dev/sda1)" --class windows --class os { insmod part_msdos insmod fat set root='(hd0,msdos1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 2445-1b06 drivemap -s (hd0) ${root} chainloader +1 } menuentry "unknown Linux distribution (on /dev/sda10)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos10)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 8335f00b-52d1-4358-a55b-ead75ae3d72c linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda10 } menuentry "unknown Linux distribution (on /dev/sda10)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos10)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 8335f00b-52d1-4358-a55b-ead75ae3d72c linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda10 } menuentry "Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (on /dev/sda5)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos2)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 0e944e90-669f-4f19-af8e-67f85863575d linux /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=af8510b0-1c80-441e-be3d-44e25c466490 ro quiet splash initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic } menuentry "Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode) (on /dev/sda5)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos2)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 0e944e90-669f-4f19-af8e-67f85863575d linux /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=af8510b0-1c80-441e-be3d-44e25c466490 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic } menuentry "Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+ (on /dev/sda5)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos2)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 0e944e90-669f-4f19-af8e-67f85863575d linux /memtest86+.bin } ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ### if [ -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then source $prefix/custom.cfg; fi ### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###

by **wayne128** on Mon May 07, 2012 7:29 pm

oh sorry ..., you are right to use /grub/grub.cfg

try this stanza

Code: Select all: title Mint on /dev/sda6+9 (/boot on sda6, / on sda9) root (hd0,5) kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=1f7f3e2f-7932-4c64-8529-ae4cb2f3471d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 initrd /initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic

by **pierssnell** on Tue May 08, 2012 4:36 am

Morning!

Still no joy, I'm afraid. Grub just replies "press any key..."

I can quite see the logic of your stanza; I just don't see what's wrong with it!!! It *is* thinking through the logic of it that makes my head spin, though. Is there any point trying to point grub at the symbolic link (if that's the expression I'm looking for) whereby vmlinuz points at boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic and likewise for initrd.img?

Thanks again so far -- off out for a few hours of work, will return to this this afternoon. Best, Piers.

by **wayne128** on Tue May 08, 2012 5:05 am

well, you can also consider two other method,

one is chainloading method.

may be I would just mention this, I was using /boot at one time and later change to make thing simple, at least for me, to play with multiboot.

So if you have extra space on hard disk, I would suggest you simplify your method ,
just let one OS to take only one partition, no /boot partition.

To test this method, if you have not tried before, is like that
just 'allocate' another 10G space out of your hard disk
install Linux OS onto this partition ( that is /)
let installer find swap ( your sda4).
then during installation, DO NOT write boot loader to MBR.
do it differently, install boot loader to root partition. yes, install it to root partition.

After that, your grub stanza for booting it via chainloading ( saya to sda8) is just

title linux os at sda8
root (hd0,7)
chainloader +1

The beauty of this method is, I created grub legecy stanza for all partition eventhou I have not install the OS.
When I install OS to a new partition, I always let its own default boot loader install to root partition, then when I reboot I select the partition and let grub legacy chainload to it.

If possible may be you could run a few command to see how hard disk partition looks like. may be there are something that fdisk or parted can bring up..
sudo fdisk -l
sudo parted -l print

by **pierssnell** on Tue May 08, 2012 11:38 am

Back to it...

Re-installed Mint to /dev/sda9, mounting a single / partition for the whole shebang, and re-formatted /dev/sda6, the old /boot partition, just in case the new installation found the old /boot files. Further, asked install CD to install bootloader to /dev/sda9, and then edited my MBR-grub menu.lst (the Ubuntu one) to include

title mint single-partition install on /dev/sda9
root (hd0,8)
chainloader +1

... again, all I got for my trouble was grub's "press any key..."

OK, shall we take a look at fdisk -l and parted -l print, then? The chainloader route is so simple and elegant, I don't see what else could go wrong with it, unless there's some difficulty about booting from high-numbered cylinders ( ? ? ? no idea what the limit is, but I've got 137Gb in my head for some reason ) If this is the difficulty, I suppose I could repartition my sda6/7/8 and try a single partition install -- the whole point about putting them in in the first place, was that I was led to believe that /boot partitions shouldn't be too far into the HDD. That would give me a 6Gb partition -- maybe a little on the mean side for a linux installation?

For your perusal...

Code: Select all: ### fdisk -l yields Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000abd7 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20481851 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda2 2551 3187 5116702+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 3188 18949 126592583 5 Extended /dev/sda4 19204 19457 2040255 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda5 3189 5737 20474842+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 5738 5993 2048000 83 Linux /dev/sda7 5993 6248 2048000 83 Linux /dev/sda8 6248 6503 2048000 83 Linux /dev/sda9 6503 9053 20480000 83 Linux /dev/sda10 9053 11602 20480000 83 Linux /dev/sda11 11603 14152 20480000 83 Linux /dev/sda12 14152 18949 38525952 83 Linux ### parted -l print yields Model: ATA WDC WD1600AVBB-6 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 160GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 21.0GB 21.0GB primary fat32 boot, lba 2 21.0GB 26.2GB 5240MB primary ext3 3 26.2GB 156GB 130GB extended 5 26.2GB 47.2GB 21.0GB logical ext3 6 47.2GB 49.3GB 2097MB logical ext3 7 49.3GB 51.4GB 2097MB logical ext3 8 51.4GB 53.5GB 2097MB logical ext3 9 53.5GB 74.5GB 21.0GB logical ext3 10 74.5GB 95.4GB 21.0GB logical ext3 11 95.4GB 116GB 21.0GB logical ext3 12 116GB 156GB 39.5GB logical ext3 4 158GB 160GB 2089MB primary linux-swap Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0 has been opened read-only. Error: /dev/sr0: unrecognised disk label

by **wayne128** on Tue May 08, 2012 9:16 pm

Well. I see nothing wrong with the hard disk partition.

Regarding 137G bios limit, again, you can boot into ubuntu, so nothing to suspect.
The issue here is why ubuntu grub legacy cannot chainload to mint?
Have you reinstall ubuntu grub legacy to MBR or its boot partition?
If no, may be you should boot into ubuntu live CD, then do a reinstallation of grub legacy to MBR and see if that get you to a "working grub legacy"

Applying what you said is 'logic'.
This is experiment for me to check.. I did it out of curiosity and to check ubuntu9.04 grub legacy boot loader....

I have not tried installing ubuntu 9.04 so this is my first time doing it.
I did this on a computer that has a lot of partitions, multibooting Win7, Fuduntu (Fedora based with grub legacy), ZenMini ( mini version of PCLOS gnome with grub legacy), and lots of Debian based using grub2.
This computer has a 640G hard disk with no issue to boot via old grub legacy in any partition both internal or external hard disk.
Here is just some findings.

1. ubuntu 9.04 did not have a way for me to install grub legacy to root partition, so it took over MBR, that is fine for me.
2. It took a while to detect all other partitions, all were detected during installation
3. when I reboot, ubuntu boots OK and run, I check and its grub legacy is grub0.97
4. I reboot many times to check other partitions and boot from ubuntu's grub menu:
win7, fuduntu, pclos, debian, everyone boots up
5. Now I added just three chainloading to randomly select partitions
reboot and select them via ubuntu grub menu
every partition boots OK with chainloading

At this point, all I can see is there is nothing I can say about any issue ( On my computer with these testing) on
1. ubuntu grub legacy 0.97
2. chainloading
3. ubuntu grub legacy auto-detecting of all my partitions..

to be continued later after more tests

Edit, added here is the grub auto generate stanza, you do not need to read,
this is just for my reference since I might need to refer to it for testing and understanding purpose

Code: Select all: # menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8) # grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8), # grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub # and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/. ## default num # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and # the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used. # # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry # is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'. # WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your # array will desync and will not let you boot your system. default 0 ## timeout sec # Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry # (normally the first entry defined). timeout 10 ## hiddenmenu # Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu) #hiddenmenu # Pretty colours #color cyan/blue white/blue ## password ['--md5'] passwd # If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing # control (menu entry editor and command-line) and entries protected by the # command 'lock' # e.g. password topsecret # password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/ # password topsecret # # examples # # title Windows 95/98/NT/2000 # root (hd0,0) # makeactive # chainloader +1 # # title Linux # root (hd0,1) # kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro # # # Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified ## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below ## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs ## ## Start Default Options ## ## default kernel options ## default kernel options for automagic boot options ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted. ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro # kopt=root=UUID=2f2493f5-d92f-40b5-842c-c78b049d8b42 ro ## default grub root device ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0) # groot=2f2493f5-d92f-40b5-842c-c78b049d8b42 ## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options ## e.g. alternative=true ## alternative=false # alternative=true ## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options ## e.g. lockalternative=true ## lockalternative=false # lockalternative=false ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the ## alternatives ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5 # defoptions=quiet splash ## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options ## e.g. lockold=false ## lockold=true # lockold=false ## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option # xenhopt= ## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option # xenkopt=console=tty0 ## altoption boot targets option ## multiple altoptions lines are allowed ## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options ## altoptions=(recovery) single # altoptions=(recovery mode) single ## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst ## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the ## alternative kernel options ## e.g. howmany=all ## howmany=7 # howmany=all ## specify if running in Xen domU or have grub detect automatically ## update-grub will ignore non-xen kernels when running in domU and vice versa ## e.g. indomU=detect ## indomU=true ## indomU=false # indomU=detect ## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option ## e.g. memtest86=true ## memtest86=false # memtest86=true ## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system ## can be true or false # updatedefaultentry=false ## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options ## can be true or false # savedefault=false ## ## End Default Options ## title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic uuid 2f2493f5-d92f-40b5-842c-c78b049d8b42 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=2f2493f5-d92f-40b5-842c-c78b049d8b42 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic quiet title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode) uuid 2f2493f5-d92f-40b5-842c-c78b049d8b42 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=2f2493f5-d92f-40b5-842c-c78b049d8b42 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+ uuid 2f2493f5-d92f-40b5-842c-c78b049d8b42 kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin quiet ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating systems: root title sda5 chainload root (hd0,4) chainloader +1 title sda6 root (hd0,5) chainloader +1 title sda10 root (hd0,9) chainloader +1 # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda1. title sda1 MBR zenmini (on /dev/sda1) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=84b31a08-8c3b-4946-b7a4-6f0d04900055 quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=462c5dae-3c24-496b-8f0c-73b021e30b52 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda1. title linux-nonfb (on /dev/sda1) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=84b31a08-8c3b-4946-b7a4-6f0d04900055 quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=462c5dae-3c24-496b-8f0c-73b021e30b52 initrd (hd0,11)/boot/initrd.img savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda1. title sda1 zenmini failsafe (on /dev/sda1) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=84b31a08-8c3b-4946-b7a4-6f0d04900055 quiet failsafe vmalloc=256M acpi=on initrd (hd0,)/boot/initrd.img savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-2-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-2-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-2-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-2-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-1-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-1-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-2-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-2-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.39-1-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-1-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-1-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.39-1-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-1-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-1-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-2-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-2-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-2-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda10. title 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda10) root (hd0,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=UUID=2751bd54-f6d3-11e0-b9db-002564ec36c2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda11. title 'Semplice GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae' --class semplice --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda11) root (hd0,10) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-686-pae root=UUID=f0330114-ffdd-436b-a48b-a6ee0df600c4 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-686-pae savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda11. title 'Semplice GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (recovery mode)' --class semplice --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda11) root (hd0,10) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-686-pae root=UUID=f0330114-ffdd-436b-a48b-a6ee0df600c4 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-686-pae savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda12. title 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda12) root (hd0,11) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-686-pae root=UUID=efc85d06-58ff-495f-9ea1-bd68c7350035 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-686-pae savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda12. title 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (recovery mode)' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda12) root (hd0,11) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-686-pae root=UUID=efc85d06-58ff-495f-9ea1-bd68c7350035 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-686-pae savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda12. title 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.39-2-486' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda12) root (hd0,11) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-2-486 root=UUID=efc85d06-58ff-495f-9ea1-bd68c7350035 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-486 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda12. title 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.39-2-486 (recovery mode)' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda12) root (hd0,11) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39-2-486 root=UUID=efc85d06-58ff-495f-9ea1-bd68c7350035 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.39-2-486 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda13. title 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda13) root (hd0,12) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=f79e309e-debc-46d6-8660-24b7761a981a ro quiet splash $vt_handoff initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda13. title 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda13) root (hd0,12) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=f79e309e-debc-46d6-8660-24b7761a981a ro recovery nomodeset initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda13. title 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-24-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda13) root (hd0,12) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic root=UUID=f79e309e-debc-46d6-8660-24b7761a981a ro quiet splash $vt_handoff initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda13. title 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-24-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda13) root (hd0,12) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic root=UUID=f79e309e-debc-46d6-8660-24b7761a981a ro recovery nomodeset initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda13. title 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-23-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda13) root (hd0,12) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic root=UUID=f79e309e-debc-46d6-8660-24b7761a981a ro quiet splash $vt_handoff initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda13. title 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-23-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda13) root (hd0,12) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic root=UUID=f79e309e-debc-46d6-8660-24b7761a981a ro recovery nomodeset initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda14. title 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda14) root (hd0,13) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=cad66f6d-0204-4fc5-b5e8-9a13a4d88faa ro quiet splash $vt_handoff initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda14. title 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda14) root (hd0,13) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=cad66f6d-0204-4fc5-b5e8-9a13a4d88faa ro recovery nomodeset initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda14. title 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda14) root (hd0,13) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic-pae root=UUID=cad66f6d-0204-4fc5-b5e8-9a13a4d88faa ro quiet splash $vt_handoff initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic-pae savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda14. title 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda14) root (hd0,13) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic-pae root=UUID=cad66f6d-0204-4fc5-b5e8-9a13a4d88faa ro recovery nomodeset initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic-pae savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda15. title 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-486' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda15) root (hd0,14) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-486 root=UUID=6705bff3-78c1-4d1c-9c51-bce5120a8f8e ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-486 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda15. title 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-486 (recovery mode)' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda15) root (hd0,14) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-486 root=UUID=6705bff3-78c1-4d1c-9c51-bce5120a8f8e ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-486 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda3 title Windows Vista (loader) rootnoverify (hd0,2) savedefault chainloader +1 # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda5. title 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.3.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-686' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda5) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.3.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-686 root=UUID=083bcdf9-2307-44aa-a309-ef4df33c7cca ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.3.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-686 savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/sda5. title 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.3.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-686 (recovery mode)' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { (on /dev/sda5) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.3.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-686 root=UUID=083bcdf9-2307-44aa-a309-ef4df33c7cca ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.3.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-686 savedefault boot # 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by **pierssnell** on Wed May 09, 2012 4:23 am

It's not making sense, is it?

Wow! The amount of effort you're prepared to invest, with no thought of reward, in Someone Else's Problem, is just humbling. I'm really very grateful. Let's see how you get on with your further experiments... for my part, I'm wondering whether it's worth digging into the possibility of going the lilo way. I *know* that everyone agrees that grub beats lilo hands down... but this might just happen to be the one-in-a-million case where lilo works when grub can't.

Till later, regards, Piers.

by **wayne128** on Wed May 09, 2012 8:27 am

For me,
hahaha, no Lilo.
had wiped out 30+ OSes and made them ALL unbootable, twice...
then I repair one at the times..
so no, not going to let it do the third time . :lol:

by **pierssnell** on Sun May 13, 2012 2:44 pm

For what it's worth, I've been doing some further experiments, installing further instances of Ubuntu (with its legacy grub) and Mint (grub2) in different places, and seeing what Rescutux can achieve. Chainloading experiments also fruitless, alas.

I find, increasingly incontrovertibly, that when Grub2 is installed to the MBR, whichever OS installation puts it there, (which always reports "Grub successfully installed,) it fails every time, usually with error 5, or one time (I think) "no such partition". If I ask Rescutux to install Grub2, the best it ever does is "Something went wrong". (Don't you love detailed error messages?)

I'm coming to the pretty firm conclusion that there's *something* about a FAT32 partition, an MBR and partition table that W98 can live with, (bearing in mind that the HDD itself is bigger than W98 can understand,) or maybe the presence of W98 itself, that Grub2 just doesn't know how to deal with. If anyone can tell me their mileage varies, I'd be pleased to know about it!

The only mechanism that appears to work, on this system, is where my Ubuntu installation on /dev/sda2 (/boot) and /dev/sda5 (/root) installs grub legacy to the MBR -- in which case, dual boot W98 and (this) Ubuntu works fine, but lengthy experimentation, and following knowledgeable advice, says that *whatever* goes in the menu.lst stanzas, the only grub stage 2 that grub stage 1 can reach is the one for this main Ubuntu installation (and the W98, of course, by chainload). I've tried installing a second Ubuntu in different places, always following the same methodology as for my "main" Ubuntu, but while the installation always *reports* successful installation of the grub bootloader, the re-boot causes grub to crash out before it even gets as far as the on-screen menu.

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