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#1 2018-07-26 15:27:01

bushy3
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Registered: 2017-06-09
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How to add another distro to grub?

My Lenovo 110s only has bl-Helium_amd64,  The drive is a 32g eMMC, it wasformatted, there's no remnants of WINDOWS10.  I would like to make this a dual boot with a version of puppylinux.  I need to modify the current grub boot menu and need some information on how to do it.  In the past I would modify the file menu.lst. This doesn't exist.  Is there a way to add an entry for another distro?

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#2 2018-07-26 17:00:40

MALsPa
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Registered: 2016-06-20
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Re: How to add another distro to grub?

Lots of good info out there. For example:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Maint … rub2Screen
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1542338

There are a few different ways of going about this, though. Typing here from Antergos, dual-boot setup with Debian Stable. Antergos was installed second. Here's what I'm using for my custom menu entry (the file is /etc/grub.d/11_antergos, on the sda1 partition -- Debian's root partition):

#!/bin/sh -e
echo "Adding Antergos on sda5"
cat << EOF
menuentry "Antergos on /dev/sda5" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
  set root=(hd0,5)
    linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda5 rw
    initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
  }
EOF

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#3 2018-07-26 17:01:50

MALsPa
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From: albuquerque
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Re: How to add another distro to grub?

There's also some good info here: https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html

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#4 2018-07-26 17:30:30

bushy3
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Re: How to add another distro to grub?

Thanks,  I'll start doing some reading

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#5 2018-07-27 01:24:00

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Re: How to add another distro to grub?

If the new distro is already installed to its own partition, then running:

sudo update-grub

ought to pick it up and automatically add it to your grub menu.
You have to run that in the distro which has control of the Master Boot Record, probably BL.

The output of the above command in the terminal ought to show whether the new distro has been detected or not.


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