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

[Barry Drake]

I'm deliberately top posting ....  I get really annoyed when I have to
scroll through most of the below to see anything new.  Please please
please edit long posts when you bottom-post!!!!

On 17/03/12 13:46, Liam Proven wrote:
>  On 17 March 2012 13:17, Piskie<ub.untu at btinternet.com>   wrote:
>>  On 17/03/12 12:15, Liam Proven wrote:
>>>  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
>>>  Very cool indeed - I will try it and report back. Thanks!
>>>
>>>>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10275310&postcount=3
>>>  Bah. Clearly my Google-fu is too weak. I did try searching - quite
>>>  thoroughly, I thought - before asking.
>>>
>>  I was not able to sleep so I had some time :)
>  :¬D
>
>>  I also have a bunch of grub2 links bookmarked - the change from grub threw
>>  me sideways for a while, not sure that I have recovered yet.
>  I agree! And personally I found LILO easier to configure than GRUB,
>  but GRUB2 is definitely harder than GRUB1 was.
>
>>  One of the grub guy' on the forum is one of my staff compadres - so I have a
>>  back door as well :)
>  Now that /is/ handy.
>