Grub not working

[Tony Pursell]

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 16:49 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> On 06/05/2011 16:17, 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
> 
> You're nearly there, but...
> 
> The line containing cat is still commented out so you need to remove the 
> hash symbol (#) and you don't need the line immediately above menuentry.
> 
> Peter HB
> 

No!

You don't need that.  I don't know where that came from because it is
not in the original /etc/grub.d/40_custom.

Tony