Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.
Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>:
> On 20100106_033032, s. keeling wrote:
> >
> > first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6.
> >
> > How do I add the latter to testing's grub? /boot/grub/menu.lst
> > doesn't exist, and /boot/grub contains stuff I've never seen before.
>
> Testing uses grub2 by default.
>
> # update-grub<cr>
>
> creates a new grub.cfg file, which is the replacement for menu.lst,
> based on info in certain magical locations in /etc. If you have an
> incomplete list of installed kernels after a fresh install, just rerun
> update-grub, and that should fix it.
>
> YMMV, HTH, etc, etc
Thanks. I'm beginning to think reportbug is going to be the solution
to this. I've created a generic menu.lst, run update-grub numerous
times, reinstalled grub2, replaced it with grub-legacy, ...
The suggested "grub-config" doesn't exist (apt-file search doesn't
find it), update-grub complains bitterly about the ptns:
[ 1326.943454 ] UFS-fs error (device hda1): ufs_check_page: \
bad entry in directory #2 ...
...
I've added OBSD to /etc/grub.d/40_custom ... No joy.
On top of that, once logged in via gdm, my mouse goes invisible. Great.
Classic "Debian gotcha's". Exactly why I want to run testing on my
sandbox. :-)
Neither grub2 nor grub-legacy ever offer OBSD as a boot option. I'd
be happy to go forward w grub2 if I can get it to work.
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