A copy of the Mint Mate 17 grub menu list is needed!!
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/boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
Mint 17 doesn't use the grub menu.list anymore.
It's grub.cfg which is generated by update-grub.
If yiu have the linuxmint cd, it's most likely a live-cd, so just reinstall grub from there.
Gentleman I was not attempting to do any substitutions. My external hard drive has 40 Gib's of bad repositories in it that mess up any installation I put into it. I installed PCLinuxOS mate into it and used its grub menu list for (hd1,0) but the bootloader still failed. Along with the repositories is a swap partition sdb5 that I can also not get rid of.
If you are using an OS that is still using menu.list it is using grub1 then it's outdated.
Not really. See the link below which indicates Grub Legacy is still the default bootloader as of September, 2014. Grub2 is available in the repositories for PCLinux.
Although grub is used by pclinux it is unmaintained as stated in the link that you provided. There have however been patches provided, but, when was the last patch?
Let's start from the beginning.
You have an installation on sdb.
sdb has an OS(mint17 LTS) which has bad repo's.
What happened, failed update to rescue prompt?
Or did it drop you ti a console?
Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list?
Have you tried to rescue with mint dvd?
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Let's start from the beginning.
You have an installation on sdb.
sdb has an OS(mint17 LTS) which has bad repo's.
What happened, failed update to rescue prompt?
Or did it drop you ti a console?
Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list?
Have you tried to rescue with mint dvd?
Although grub is used by pclinux it is unmaintained as stated in the link that you provided. There have however been patches provided, but, when was the last patch?
I don't know when the last patch was but I do know that using PCLinuxOS as my primary system using Grub Legacy I can directly boot Ubuntu 12.04 as well as Mint 17. I still am not sure what the problem is with the OP, if he is trying to boot his Mint from PCLinuxOS with Grub Legacy or if he is using Grub2 from Mint or something else. A little clarification on his part might help resolve his issue.
The grub menu list for my PClinuxOS mate on my computer hard drive is:
title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinux BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=cca245c7-d910-4797-a5e9-8ca3d180878b quiet
nokmsboot splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img
I believe if I add the menu list for Mint onto this list that I will be able to access the Mint 17
os that is now on my external hard drive. That is all that I am trying to do!!
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It's a long time since I did anything with "legacy GRUB" but as I recall you just need to copy the structure of the entry you already have but change the title to Mint and the location to something like (hd1,0) for the first partition of the second hard drive.
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