Grub not working

Tony Pursell ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
Fri May 6 15:28:23 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:17 -0400, dave boland wrote:
> > Forget all that. (Bangs head on wall!).  We really should read what it
> > says 'Simply type the menu entries you want to add after this comment'
> > 
> > So all you need is to add
> > 
> > menuentry "WinME" {
> > insmod part_msdos
> > insmod fat
> > set root=(hd0,1)
> > chainloader +1
> > 
> > after the line 
> > 
> > # the 'exec tail' line above.
> > 
> > then the 
> > 
> > exec tail -n +3 $0
> > 
> > does the rest by outputting everything after the 3rd line.
> > 
> > Sorry if I sent you down a blind alley before.
> > 
> > Tony
> 
> Tony,
> 
> So if I understand, it should look like this when done?
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec tail -n +3 $0
> # 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
> menuentry "WinME" {
> > insmod part_msdos
> > insmod fat
> > set root=(hd0,1)
> > chainloader +1
> }
> EOF
> -- 

Sort of, but I think the mail has garbled it.  See

http://pastebin.com/UrdHRpcS

Now all we need to do is to get the correct commands to put in the file!

Tony









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