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Old 06-09-2013, 04:38 PM   #1
nightrider
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How to correct Moondrake's dual boot menu


I have a machine that had Open Suse 12.1 in dual boot with windows 7 ultimate.
I found the moondrake distribution 2013 beta 12 penguins and resolve to install it in place of Open Suse. I burn an ISO DVD and install Moondrake(I'm an old Mandrake/Mandriva fan).
After installed Moondrake doesn't permit use of other dual boot than grub2 graphic.
It occurs that after installation windows doesn't appear in the Moondrake grub 2 list of OS. The file system shows that windows partition is present and I see all the folders I know from my windows. Even using moondrake Control Center's boot option and selecting windows the grub 2 doesn't show the windows 7 in its menu.
Is there a way of alter Moondrake boot menu to include Windows 7 in the dual boot menu? If affirmative may someone of you give me an explanation about how to do this? Please?

Greetings from Sao Paulo - SP

Ricardo
 
Old 06-09-2013, 06:00 PM   #2
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I haven't used Mandrake derivatives since it mangled my hard-disk on install many years ago and caused me to lose 4 systems. So ....

In grub2 that functionality is provided by an external script "os-prober" (try "which os-prober" as root/sudo). Grub2 will use it if present (early Fedora grub2 didn't have it for example), and provided the option isn't disabled in /etc/default/grub.
If all that is in place, something like "grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg" will rebuild the config grub2 uses for the boot menu. Note that it might be "grub2-mkconfig", and the target may be /boot/grub2/ - like I said, I've never used Moondrake.
 
  


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