Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.
>> > 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.
> 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.
What is your 40... entry?
Are you loading the ufs module(s)?
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