[SOLVED] Help with Grub
Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 9:54 am
Hi.
I've gotten pretty far on my own, but now I'm stumped. lol
I had a dual boot system and wanted to delete Win7 and have Linux on a much larger partiton, (the old Win7 partition) so after searching around, I ended up using gparted and deleted the Win7 / etc. partitions, and set up a new ext4 partition and an 8GB part. for Linux swap, then copied Linux from the smaller partition to the new partition.
I booted up and ran sudo update-grub and it found the Linux 12 Lisa partition etc. And it boots up from the new partition fine. I'm working on it now.
However, the grub menu still shows Windows 7. And, I cannot access the original Linux partition. (same mount point as sda1 "/") So I get it that I have to change the mount point to... something... dev/sda5 or whatever(?)
I might install LMDE12 on i,t so maybe I won't have to worry about that...
But what I want to do is update the grub menu.
I ran sudo grub-mkconfig, and it displays what looks to me like a good file--- no Windows 7 boot loader listed-- but where to I write the file? And how do I set it up?
Thanks for any help.
I've gotten pretty far on my own, but now I'm stumped. lol
I had a dual boot system and wanted to delete Win7 and have Linux on a much larger partiton, (the old Win7 partition) so after searching around, I ended up using gparted and deleted the Win7 / etc. partitions, and set up a new ext4 partition and an 8GB part. for Linux swap, then copied Linux from the smaller partition to the new partition.
I booted up and ran sudo update-grub and it found the Linux 12 Lisa partition etc. And it boots up from the new partition fine. I'm working on it now.
However, the grub menu still shows Windows 7. And, I cannot access the original Linux partition. (same mount point as sda1 "/") So I get it that I have to change the mount point to... something... dev/sda5 or whatever(?)
I might install LMDE12 on i,t so maybe I won't have to worry about that...
But what I want to do is update the grub menu.
I ran sudo grub-mkconfig, and it displays what looks to me like a good file--- no Windows 7 boot loader listed-- but where to I write the file? And how do I set it up?
Thanks for any help.