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Re: GRUB2



On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 10:38:42AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 06/06/14 02:04 AM, Go Linux wrote:
> >On Fri, 6/6/14, Man_Without_Clue <love.chaser@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Subject: GRUB2
> >  To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> >  Date: Friday, June 6, 2014, 12:48 AM
> >
> >  Hi all,
> >
> >  Once again I need your help.
> >
> >  I have debian wheezy installed on my primary HDD sda1, and I
> >  just installed Mint 17 on separate HDD sdb2.
> >  Now the GRUB of the MINT 17 took over the grub of Debian,
> >  but I don't like look of ths new grub installed by Mint.
> >
> >  Is there anyway to revive the debian's GRUB or edit the menu
> >  of Mint's GRUB?
> >
> >  Thanks for your help.
> >
> >  Man without clue
> >
> >--------------------------------------------
> >
> >Boot into wheezy on sda1 and run update-grub.  That has sorted things for me in the past.
> >
> >
> 
>   That will update the Grub menu...but it will still be displayed by
> the Grub installed on sdb2.
> What you want I think is to run install-grub as root from your Debian
> partition... ie as root "install-grub /dev/sda1"

I stumbled on that a few weeks ago while flailing about trying to solve
some other problem (flailing about is my standard troubleshooting
technique). Works like a charm. The command, not flailing about.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
A man is a man who will fight with a sword
or tackle Mt Everest in snow, but the bravest 
of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for 6000 in low.

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