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No boot menu in pclos kde4 64 bit
« on: April 08, 2012, 07:44:30 PM »
On my desktop all is OK
When booting up, I get a menu presented:
--PCLinuxos
--bootpclinuxos (safe mode )
--few others ( like pclos lxde or xfce or FM )
When I choose one of the others, I get another menu presented.

All fine

Now over to my Laptop !
I installed the test04 64 bit on sda5.
No problem with boot menu.

Then, I installed test04 64 bit on sda11.
After adding the bootup entry ( of sda11 ) to the menu.lst ( in sda5 ),
I can indeed boot into sda11. No problem....except ...>

I don't get a menu .( not at all. Maybe there is a 1/100th of a second flicker
where the boot menu was supposed to appear, but..)
It boots up straight without giving me any choices

I compared all I could find in PCC/boot/setup boot system, both the first screen, the next, advanced button and used modified ( to look only ) if I could find any suspicious entries, compared with sda5 (PCC/boot/setup boot system........tatata)

Spend about 2 hours, but I think it's time to ask some guru  ;D ;D

Do I need it:
No
But I certainly would give all my sweets in exchange for a boot menu on sda11

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Re: No boot menu in pclos kde4 64 bit
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2012, 08:16:01 PM »
I know the 64bit testing iso(s) are discussed only on the testers mailing list.
I'll give you one hint!
Run redo-mbr (as root) from a livecd and I"m almost sure it's see there's another OS is been detected (the 64bit install).

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Re: No boot menu in pclos kde4 64 bit
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2012, 09:05:06 PM »
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Run redo-mbr (as root) from a livecd

You did not understand properly.
There is nothing wrong with menu.lst and it's contents.

It's not showing up on boot to give me the choices of OS that I want to have

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Re: No boot menu in pclos kde4 64 bit
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2012, 09:44:50 PM »
Quote from: Xenaflux on April 08, 2012, 09:05:06 PM
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Run redo-mbr (as root) from a livecd

You did not understand properly.
There is nothing wrong with menu.lst and it's contents.

It's not showing up on boot to give me the choices of OS that I want to have

Thanks
Xena

Post the contents of both menu.lsts.
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Re: No boot menu in pclos kde4 64 bit
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2012, 12:34:54 AM »
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Post the contents of both menu.lsts.

I give you three instead of 2

Notes added in color

sda5
====
timeout 5
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title PCLinuxOS     Chonlakorn     sda5-6
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=PCLinuxOS_____Chonlakorn_____sd root=UUID=8254dd8a-dc74-4f6c-b7c3-a4e4d13c94fd quiet nokmsboot vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=8254dd8a-dc74-4f6c-b7c3-a4e4d13c94fd quiet nokmsboot vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=8254dd8a-dc74-4f6c-b7c3-a4e4d13c94fd quiet failsafe vmalloc=256M acpi=on
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title PCLinuxOS     Chonlakorn     2.6.38.8
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-pclos3 BOOT_IMAGE=PCLinuxOS_____Chonlakorn_____26 root=UUID=8254dd8a-dc74-4f6c-b7c3-a4e4d13c94fd quiet nokmsboot vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.38.8-pclos3.img

title 3.2.14-pclos7.bfs
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.14-pclos7.bfs BOOT_IMAGE=3.2.14-pclos7.bfs root=UUID=8254dd8a-dc74-4f6c-b7c3-a4e4d13c94fd quiet nokmsboot vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-3.2.14-pclos7.bfs.img

title Tony     sda11
kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=a8371db0-28c7-4b70-9177-bf6cf1e58a67  quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd.img

title PCLinuOS-64b on sda11
kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=PCLinuOS-64b_on_sda11 root=UUID=a8371db0-28c7-4b70-9177-bf6cf1e58a67 quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd.img

title linux
kernel (hd0,11)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=7b632bb7-226e-4be4-aa9c-c821224fbcf6  quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,11)/boot/initrd.img

there is nothing wrong here, as every entry brings me exactly where I want to be.
choosing "PCLinuxOS     Chonlakorn    sda5-6" makes it booting to sda5.
choosing "Tony     sda11" makes it booting into sda11 as planned, but. I do not get a screen with choices.sda11 is fully functional otherwise.
Choosing " linux ( this one I installed deliberately with a configuration fault ( user error  in resolution and graphics driver)which was know to me from previous installs ).
It hangs solid, because I do not get presented with an option to go into save mode
.It feels as if the system (sda11 and 12 ) totally ignore the time outs and read them as 0.0. As said before, there seems to be a flicker, but it is to short to be sure
I have changed the time out values to 100 to see....no change

sda 11
======
timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,10)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title PCLinuOS-64b on sda11
kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=PCLinuOS-64b_on_sda11 root=UUID=a8371db0-28c7-4b70-9177-bf6cf1e58a67 quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=a8371db0-28c7-4b70-9177-bf6cf1e58a67 quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8
initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=a8371db0-28c7-4b70-9177-bf6cf1e58a67 quiet failsafe vmalloc=256M acpi=on
initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd.img

title PCLinuxOS (PCLinuxOS)
root (hd0,4)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst

title 2.6.38.8-pclos3
kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-pclos3 BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.38.8-pclos3 root=UUID=a8371db0-28c7-4b70-9177-bf6cf1e58a67 quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd-2.6.38.8-pclos3.img

title 3.2.14-pclos7.bfs
kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.14-pclos7.bfs BOOT_IMAGE=3.2.14-pclos7.bfs root=UUID=a8371db0-28c7-4b70-9177-bf6cf1e58a67 quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd-3.2.14-pclos7.bfs.img


sda12
=====
timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,11)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,11)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=7b632bb7-226e-4be4-aa9c-c821224fbcf6  quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,11)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,11)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=7b632bb7-226e-4be4-aa9c-c821224fbcf6  quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8
initrd (hd0,11)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,11)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=7b632bb7-226e-4be4-aa9c-c821224fbcf6  quiet failsafe vmalloc=256M acpi=on
initrd (hd0,11)/boot/initrd.img

title PCLinuxOS (PCLinuxOS)
root (hd0,10)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst

title alt_PCLinuxOS (PCLinuxOS)
root (hd0,4)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
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Re: No boot menu in pclos kde4 64 bit
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2012, 01:22:54 AM »
Xenaflux:

Your master  grub menu.lst stanzas are all direct boot stanzas. Direct boot stanzas always boot directly with the kernel specified, into the / partition specified. They are behaving exactly as they should.

Chainloader stanzas present a second menu.lst boot menu, because they themselves do not select a kernel and / partition, only the location of the secondary menu.lst from which those choices can be made.
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Re: No boot menu in pclos kde4 64 bit
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2012, 03:23:44 AM »
OP

Thanks a lot.
I understand what you are saying, and will stick with chainloading.

However, I am confused to hell, to say the least, as what have I been doing the last 2 years.
I remember copying from menu.lst in sdaXX to menu.lst in sda5 all the time and every time.
I remember nothing about doing chainloading
But then, I also don't remember what I had for breakfast this morning, or even "if" I had breakfast.

I think it's time to swap the white pills for the yellow pills
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Re: No boot menu in pclos kde4 64 bit
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2012, 03:26:11 AM »
Or in other words, if you don't have grub installed to the boot sector of your sda11 partition, replace the stanza

Code: [Select]
title Tony     sda11
kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=a8371db0-28c7-4b70-9177-bf6cf1e58a67  quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=0c6521fe-a30e-4c5c-b3b1-e1ce074311e8 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd.img

with

Code: [Select]
title Tony_sda11
root (hd0,10)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst

If you do have grub installed in the boot sector of sda11, use

Code: [Select]
title Tony_sda11
root (hd0,10)
chainloader +1
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Re: No boot menu in pclos kde4 64 bit
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2012, 04:09:32 AM »
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Or in other words, if you don't have grub installed to the boot sector of your sda11 partition, replace the stanza

Thanks Bald Brick
I will put it with my notes.

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