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I would like to install4M without installing the bootloader. What are the required lines I need to add in my current grub installation to boot 4M Linux ? (grub legacy 0.97)
Location: Montreal, Quebec and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia CANADA
Distribution: Arch, AntiX, ArtiX
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Originally Posted by ychaouche
I would like to install4M without installing the bootloader. What are the required lines I need to add in my current grub installation to boot 4M Linux ? (grub legacy 0.97)
Hi ychaouche,
I am presuming from your information that there is another linux system on this same computer with an existing installation of grub legacy ... You could confirm the details of this so that we're all sure.
If so, you could boot back into your existing linux system after installing 4M and run the grub config command to update with the new linux install. Make sure osprober is installed so that the command looks for other systems. The command would be :
Code:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Make sure the grub.cfg file location is according to your installation and I recommend checking the generated grub.cfg file against the output of the lsblk -f command before rebooting.
I would like to install4M without installing the bootloader. What are the required lines I need to add in my current grub installation to boot 4M Linux ? (grub legacy 0.97)
sf.net was down (ongoing DDoS attack), so in the meantime I tried to boot NuTyX, which is installed on /dev/sda9
Code:
ychaouche#ychaouche-PC 10:15:54 ~ $ sudo os-prober
[sudo] password for ychaouche:
No volume groups found
/dev/sda1:Windows 7 (loader):Windows:chain
/dev/sda9:NuTyX GNU/Linux (rolling):NuTyX:linux #<-------------------- Hello NuTyX !
ychaouche#ychaouche-PC 10:45:30 ~ $
I seem to have grub legacy installed, because changes I make to /boot/grub/menu.lst are visible when I reboot. But when I do and select NuTyX I get error 17 : cannot mount selected partition.
Here's the NuTyX's corresponding entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst :
... good to know. I've always used ext4 for linux, so I've never run across this limitation. Furthermore, I haven't used GRUB Legacy for quite a while either.
There are a number of other boot loading solutions you can move to : GRUB (current version), Syslinux, rEFInd, or even straight from UEFI (assuming your computer's UEFI implementation is standard ...).
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