grub-install

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Fri Aug 12 17:26:13 UTC 2005


On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:20:46AM +0200, Marek Pawinski wrote:
>Hi
>
>Is this possible i wonder ? I have multiple oses installed on my
>machine and have now installed Mandriva beta on a spare partition
>choosing not to install a boot loader.
>
>I go into Ubuntu grub boot up in recovery mode and run "grub-install
>/dev/hda8" hda8 is where my Ubuntu sits.
>
>But this does not pick up the Mandriva partition nor boot menu.
>
>Should i have installed Mandriva with the boot loader option to MBR and
>then run grub-install from the Ubuntu CD ?

IIRC grub-install will only install grub it won't actually update the
menu file, that's where the information is about what OSs you have.

You'll have to edit it manually to add the Mandriva system.

/M

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