Ubuntu has a routine that builds the grub2 config file by searching the machine for bootable operating systems. Booting Ubuntu recovery brings up a menu which includes rebuilding the grub files.
I keep Ubuntu on a partition in my office machine and let it do the grubby lifting. It locates about a dozen boot targets and puts them in the boot menu. I have learned to do it this way so that a failed install of foo.bar Linux will not leave the machine unbootable.
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 05:40 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Ubuntu has a routine that builds the grub2 config file by searching the machine for bootable operating systems. Booting Ubuntu recovery brings up a menu which includes rebuilding the grub files.
I keep Ubuntu on a partition in my office machine and let it do the grubby lifting. It locates about a dozen boot targets and puts them in the boot menu. I have learned to do it this way so that a failed install of foo.bar Linux will not leave the machine unbootable.
After manually getting grub2 installed on my system (by booting into the rescue mode from the install DVD) and created a working grub.cfg with grub2-mkconfig. By running grub2-mkconfig you can check what it comes up with.
Jurgen