Grub2 remove duplicate entry

fakie_flip · 01-11-2013, 09:18 PM

I am not familiar with grub2 so well as legacy grub. It seems highly overcomplicated, and really only needed for GPT. How do I remove a duplicate Windows 8 entry shown at the grub menu for a dual boot configuration? I read not to edit the /boot/grub/grub.cfg

EDIT:
Also when looking at the /boot/grub/grub.cfg, I only see one entry for Windows 8, so I wouldn't know what to edit exactly to get rid of the duplicate that appears at the grub menu screen.

towheedm · 01-11-2013, 10:23 PM

You can re-generate the grub.cfg configuration script with:

Code:

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Note that on some distros like Fedora and openSUSE, GRUB2 files are in /boot/grub2.

On Debian and Debian-based distro you can simply do:

Code:

sudo update-grub

This is simply a BASH script that runs the above grub-mkconfig command.

If it does not work, please post your grub.cfg file and partition information.

Hope it helps.

fakie_flip · 01-11-2013, 11:44 PM

I am using Linux Mint atm which is debian/ubuntu based. I'll let you know if this worked after next reboot. Thanks.