[ubuntu-uk] MS-DOS not being added to GRUB menu (Lubuntu 12.04)

[Liam Proven]

On 17 March 2012 02:43, Piskie <ub.untu at btinternet.com> 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?
>>
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> 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

Just FYI - that worked a treat. My thanks once again.

Also, today has provided kernel 3.2.0-19 which seems to boot more
reliably (so far) & now the graphical boot screen works.

Lubuntu FTW!

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