Re: editing grub in lenny to boot from ext4 partition

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> 2010/3/10 Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com 
> <mailto:andreimpopescu@gmail.com>>
>
>     On Wed,10.Mar.10, 00:27:19, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
>      > So now i had installed grub2 and it does not automatically
>     detects a distro
>      > i had installed (before installing debian) on /dev/sda3
>      >
>      > I saw this message on /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>      > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
>      > #
>      > # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using
>     templates
>      > # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
>      >
>      > and do i proceed from here?
>
>     Install os-prober and re-run update-grub.
>
>
> Thanks, the following is the steps taken (which is successful, of course)
>
>    1. mount /dev/sda3 (the ext4 os partition) "tune2fs -E test_fs
>       /dev/sda3;Â mount -t ext4dev /dev/sda3 /mnt/"
>    2. copy its menu entry entry in /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg
>       to /etc/grub.d/40_custom
>    3. run update-grub (it should say that it detects the other os's kernel)
>    4. new entries for that os will be appended in /boot/grub/grub.cfg


Another way to boot an ext4 system is to add 'rootfstype=ext4' to the 
kernel line in the /boot/grub/menu.lst.
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Jimmy Johnson

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