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Old 04-15-2009, 05:31 PM   #1
wrightda
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Grub not seeing all my distros


Installed KateOS last night and the grub loader is not seeing my ubuntu and puppy partitions. I have files in Puppy i at least need to recover, how can i do this?
 
Old 04-15-2009, 06:41 PM   #2
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You can add an entry for Puppy and Ubuntu to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. See the link in my signature for examples of how to do this.

If you just want the files, you need to know what partition they're on and the partition type (hint: use fdisk -l). Then just use mount from the command line.
 
Old 04-15-2009, 08:33 PM   #3
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As Colin McLeod said, "There can be only one" grub. What you've done is installed grub to the /boot/grub in your KateOS - which, of course, doesn't know anything about Puppy or Ubuntu or anything else you might have on your drive. This problem pretty much defines the case where one should have a separate "/boot" partition. However, I think you can get around the problem by deciding which of your OS'es is your primary one, and reinstall grub on that one. Then, it's just a matter of adding the others to that one's /boot/grub/menu.lst. See pjvaldez's signature line for how.
 
Old 04-16-2009, 01:03 AM   #4
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That's the hard way for someone with one post.
You can also boot into a live session with the Ubuntu CD, open a terminal and issue the command: sudo fdisk -l to see which partition is which. If for example your Ubuntu partition on the drive is /dev/sda3, use it for grub configurations as Ubuntu updates it's kernel more often than the others, and when a kernel gets updated, so does the grub configuration file in Ubuntu to reflect the new kernel, this will save you from having to edit the file if you used the KateOS grub configuration instead of Ubuntu's when Ubuntu gets a kernel update.

Run the four commands below to reinstall grub in the MBR of the first drive set to boot in the bios, using the hard drive Ubuntu installation as root for grub configuration, remember to change the root command (second command) to reflect the proper device corresponding to the Ubuntu partition. Grub counts from 0, so /dev/sda3 is (hd0,2)
Code:
sudo grub
root (hd0,2)
setup (hd0)
quit
 
Old 04-17-2009, 12:52 AM   #5
wrightda
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Thanks everyone, I got my files From my puppy partition! I was able to add puppy to /boot/grub/menu.lst, however I'm sure Junior Hacker's way would of been easier. Either way I appreciate the help! EVERYONE GETS A THANKS!
 
  


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