wa4chq Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 It's been quite awhile since my last Linux hosing, so for kicks I did it again yesterday! (I'm lying...I didn't do it for kicks) My brother gave me a Dell tower last year. They were updating at work so he grabbed one for me. I wiped Windows off and installed Mint. While doing so, I split the hard drive so I would have a spare partition. All has been good until yesterday when I decided to install Archbang. I used AB years ago and decided to relive those daze. So I installed AB to hda3, the empty partition. But after rebooting, GRUB didn't detect Mint. It hadn't been wiped but I couldn't boot to it. So this morning, I did a little research into GRUB and read that it should detect another flavor if something else is there. I found the answer and after verifying in /etc/default/grub that GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false was not commented, I ran this command: sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg After rebooting, I found Mint had been added to the GRUB menu. So sisters and brothers, pray for me so that I may have the power to resist the temptation of another evil install, and if the urge is there, pray that I have the wisdom to use VB or Live distro's. Go in peace. Amen. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 I ran into the same with a recent siduction install. In Debian it changed to disable os-prober for Bookworm. IIRC, to detect other OSs for GRUB it just needed booting to siduction and running update-grub 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted August 3, 2022 Author Share Posted August 3, 2022 18 minutes ago, sunrat said: I ran into the same with a recent siduction install. In Debian it changed to disable os-prober for Bookworm. IIRC, to detect other OSs for GRUB it just needed booting to siduction and running update-grub Hey Sunrat....before I found the article, I did try just: sudo update-grub and it responded by saying it couldn't find command. That's when I dug further and luckily found what it was I needed to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Ah.. good ol' GRUB. I sorta' remember it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted August 3, 2022 Author Share Posted August 3, 2022 1 hour ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: Ah.. good ol' GRUB. I sorta' remember it. I'm glad that I wasn't having wifi issues during this major crisis.... I think GRUB is better than is used to be but I really don't want to mess with any of that sh*te again (laughing to myself) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookmem Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Whenever I install a new distro to test, I always have it install grub to the test partition or not install grub at all. Then when I boot, it runs the old grub. Then I run update-grub from my main distro so the it adds the test distro to the grub menu. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted August 3, 2022 Author Share Posted August 3, 2022 1 hour ago, Bookmem said: Whenever I install a new distro to test, I always have it install grub to the test partition or not install grub at all. Then when I boot, it runs the old grub. Then I run update-grub from my main distro so the it adds the test distro to the grub menu. As of today, I am turning over a new leaf. Living on the Linux edge is behind me....it's history. I will fight Linux no more forever! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 2 hours ago, wa4chq said: Living on the Linux edge is behind me.... Meh... my Linux Adventure daze are far behind me. I can't even remember the last time I installed a distribution other than Slackware on any of my systems. Of course, nowadays my "systems" are no longer plural... just my main system in the house. My old shop system has a pooped out PSU, so it's been dead for a couple years now. I'm at the age where I'm just happy it turns on in the morning and works without any bugaboos. In the evening, it goes back off again. That's about the extent of my adventurousness. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Nice wa4chq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 I agree with Eric. I am just getting too old for the complicated life. One OS only per machine. I do have a bunch of junkers though. If I want to test something new there's always VirtualBox. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 On 8/6/2022 at 8:06 AM, raymac46 said: I agree with Eric. I am just getting too old for the complicated life. One OS only per machine. I do have a bunch of junkers though. If I want to test something new there's always VirtualBox. I just run other distros via VMs, I have not dual booted in well over a decade. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 3 hours ago, securitybreach said: I just run other distros via VMs... As most of you may remember, I've never utilized VM in any form on any of my machines. I always install "on the rails", so to speak. Virtual computing is a lot like virtual sex; it may be safer, easier, less messy... but not near as much fun. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted August 8, 2022 Author Share Posted August 8, 2022 7 hours ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: Virtual computing is a lot like virtual sex; it may be safer, easier, less messy... but not near as much fun. I'm all for Live Distros that talk dirty to ya... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.