[SOLVED]Cannot boot into crunchbang from grub.

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-09 02:27:16

Hello, I installed archbang(I guess I was hit by the distro-hopping-disease) and when I went to boot from the grub menu only archbang and archbang fallback were there, where used to be my windows and crunchbang options. How do I find out what to put in the menu entry for my crunchbang partition?

Last edited by steampunknyanja (2011-09-09 11:35:04)

psyco430404 · 2011-09-09 02:29:16

alright youll either need to run

sudo update-grub

or

su
update-grub

depending on if you have sudoers or not.

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-09 02:31:54

I've tried that, it says the command was not found. Is there any package I need to install?

psyco430404 · 2011-09-09 02:42:22

try using liloconfig as root, i think arch uses that instead of grub

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-09 02:57:27

That also doesnt work. Says there is no command. I can edit the menu.lst file, I just have to know what to put for crunchbang

psyco430404 · 2011-09-09 03:02:33

you need to install grub-pc, grub-common, and grub. Then you can use the grub commands to set it up.

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-09 03:05:45

For both grub-pc and grub-common I got a target not found error. I was able to install grub, though.

psyco430404 · 2011-09-09 03:06:54

,,,idk and i dont wanna mess you up man, wait for machienebacon lol.

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-09 03:08:45

Okay, thanks for your help though tongue

VastOne · 2011-09-09 03:31:57

steampunknyanja wrote:

Okay, thanks for your help though

You are seeing a grub menu? From which distro did it come from? Arch?

Whichever or wherever your mbr is and whichever distro you had grub running from, you need to do an update-grub from there

CBizgreat! · 2011-09-09 03:35:34

If archbang uses grub legacy, has a grub/menu.lst, then can help ya out. Used archbang for a few wks, cannot remember which bootloader it uses though. Anyway, if it is grub legacy a cool trick I found for booting grub2 with legacy is ...

Boot archbang, open terminal ... sudo texteditor /boot/grub/menu.lst
note: Texteditor is the text editor you wanna use obviously.

title Crunchbang ( or whatever ya wanna call it )
root (hd0,x) x is the partition #! is installed on -/minus 1. ie: If #! is on sda4, you'd put (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/grub/core.img

Save the menu.lst file. Reboot and enjoy.

more notes; hd0 is of course the master drive. If ya have several hdd's you'd need to change that accordingly eh. That stuff above works like a charm though. Am booting crunchbang using it myself with legacy.

Another thing: afterthought, if you want to set it up so that #! boots immediately after ya select it from the grub legacy menu. Instead of going over to grub2's menu .... Boot #!, open terminal type sudo texteditor /etc/default/grub
When the file opens change this line to GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 Save the file, then in terminal type sudo update-grub

Now grub2 doesn't wait x number of seconds. It boots the default selection immediately. That's how I set mine up anyway. So I don't go from grub legacy's menu over to grub2 ( #!'s) menu and have to wait x seconds or select what I want to boot there again. Goes wham, bam ... crunchbang.

big_smile

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2011-09-09 05:36:54)

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-09 11:35:34

Thank you so much! This worked perfectly. smile

CBizgreat! · 2011-09-09 11:50:23

Ha !! This just goes to show, sometimes even I know what I'm talking about ! Not often ... but sometimes.

4 real, ya welcome ... glad ya got #! booting again. wink

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2011-09-09 11:50:40)

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[SOLVED]Cannot boot into crunchbang from grub.

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