Grub not working

[Tom H]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:31 PM, dave boland <dboland9 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> I have tried all manner of combinations to get this to work.  Currently,
> I get an error in line 147 (of the config file?) when I run update-grub.
>  Below is the error and the config file entry starting at line 143.
>
> Generating grub.cfg ...
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
> Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
> error: syntax error.
> error: Incorrect command.
> error: syntax error.
> error: line no: 147
> Syntax errors are detected in generated GRUB config file.
> Ensure that there are no errors in /etc/default/grub
> and /etc/grub.d/* files or please file a bug report with
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg.new file attached.
> done
>
> ### 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.
> # cat /etc/grub.d/40_custom
> #!/bin/sh
> echo 'Windows ME'
> cat<<EOF
> menuentry "WinME" {
> chainloader (hd0,1)+1
> }
> EOF
> ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

I don't understand but I don't have the time to check the archive at
the moment. I hope that this wasn't what I asked you to do. :(

What you need is just:

root at nattykdebox:~# cat /etc/grub.d/40_custom
#!/bin/sh
cat << EOF
menuentry "Chainload WinME" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod fat
set root=(hdX,Y) ## where X and Y are correct for your ME partition
chainloader +1
}
EOF
root at nattykdebox:~#

In the same way, this is a cat of a 40_custom that I've got at the
moment to test FreeBSD:

root at nattykdebox:~# cat /etc/grub.d/40_custom
#!/bin/sh

cat <<EOF

menuentry "FreeBSD chainload" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod part_bsd
insmod ufs1
insmod ufs2
set root=(hd1,msdos1,bsd1)
chainloader +1
}

menuentry "FreeBSD loader" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod part_bsd
insmod ufs1
insmod ufs2
set root=(hd1,msdos1,bsd1)
kfreebsd /boot/loader
}

menuentry "FreeBSD kernel" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod part_bsd
insmod ufs1
insmod ufs2
set root=(hd1,msdos1,bsd1)
kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel
kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints
set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad6s1a
set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw
}

EOF
root at nattykdebox:~#