On Wednesday 21 July 2010 06:08:46 Dan McGhee wrote: > The precise answer to your question is, no, I haven't done that yet. By > "seeing" other stuff" I'm referring to grub-mkconfig. I thought it would > "out of the box." I know I can add those menu entries, and I'm going to. > I was hoping that when I booted the new system, it was completely > divorced from any artificialities of the host and would pick up on what > other stuff was on the computer. That didn't happen. > > So the next step is to manually add those items. I haven't yet studied > deeply the scripts grub uses to look. Maybe it's just not worth it. If > it works, it works--I'm referring to manually adding those menu items.
Do you have os-prober installed? It's not covered in the book. I grabbed a copy from debian; there's no makefile if you grab from debian, so you'll have to dig through debian/rules to sort out what's installed, or if you don't feel like that and you can't find a package elsewhere that includes a makefile or configure script you can grab the *.deb and do 'ar x package_name && tar xf data.tar.gz' and move the files manually. After that's sorted a run of 'grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' should give something like the following: Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinux-2.6.32.8-lfs-6.6 Found Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader) on /dev/sda1 Found Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (10.04) on /dev/sda5 Found unknown Linux distribution on /dev/sda6 -- Regards, Trent. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
