Running Porteus on harddisk via GRUB ?!
Posted: 09 Oct 2020, 04:17
If you set root to the partition you're booting and don't use the from= cheatcode does it boot?
If you set root to the grub partition you're booting and set the from= cheatcode to the name of the folder name you want to use does it boot? No /mnt or /dev just the folder name your using.
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This is a grub menu I use for an installed version of Porteus. No from= cheatcode used.
If you set root to the grub partition you're booting and set the from= cheatcode to the name of the folder name you want to use does it boot? No /mnt or /dev just the folder name your using.
Added in 10 hours 52 minutes 52 seconds:
This is a grub menu I use for an installed version of Porteus. No from= cheatcode used.
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menuentry "Porteus 3.2.2 - installed" --class slackware --class icon-porteus {
echo "Boot disk address is: "$root
echo "Prefix is: "$prefix
echo "The boot mode is: "$grub2win_bootmode
search -f /boot/syslinux/vmlinuz --set=root
echo "Porteus root is: "$root
echo "ISO is: n/a"
echo "Porteus folders: /"
set porteus_parms="extramod=/Modules;/Modsavedat changes=EXIT:/porteus/porteussave.dat volume=33 reboot=cold" # acpi=off"
echo "Porteus parms are: "$porteus_parms
echo
sleep -v -i 5
linux /boot/syslinux/vmlinuz $porteus_parms
initrd /boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
echo "Booting Porteus"
}