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Post#1 by Farid » 23 Apr 2022, 08:34

hi
i have two distro on my labtop
solus in sda1 and porteus 5rc3 in sda7
i install porteus bootloader when installed it
and now i dont access solus
how to add solus to grub menu?

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Post#2 by Ed_P » 23 Apr 2022, 16:25

I don't think Porteus bootloader is grub, but I could be wrong. How were you booting solus before Porteus?
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Post#3 by norb » 24 Apr 2022, 10:10

Isn't it still the PLoP bootmanager in 5rc3?

https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

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Post#4 by Farid » 24 Apr 2022, 13:48

Ed_P wrote:
23 Apr 2022, 16:25
I don't think Porteus bootloader is grub, but I could be wrong. How were you booting solus before Porteus?
solus have a grub menu and when i install porteus has gone

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Post#5 by Ed_P » 24 Apr 2022, 16:17

Farid wrote:
24 Apr 2022, 13:48
solus have a grub menu and when i install porteus has gone
Can you upload the solus grub menu so I can review it please. https://www.mediafire.com/ is what many users use.

Does the solus grub menu have the ability to boot other systems? Until we figure out a better option you will have to switch OSs by using your machine's boot menu. Is your machine BIOS or UEFI based?

BTW You are right the Porteus bootloader menu is grub based. I thought it was rEFInd based.

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This sound similar Farid? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1362630 ... -grub-menu
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Post#6 by Farid » 24 Apr 2022, 19:33

Ed_P wrote:
24 Apr 2022, 18:38
where is the grub path?
yes solus grub can add other distro and the windows

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Post#7 by Ed_P » 24 Apr 2022, 21:46

Farid wrote:
24 Apr 2022, 19:33
where is the grub path?
No idea, I've never used solus.

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In Porteus it's in /boot/syslinux/.

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Post the output of your sda1 and sda7 drives.

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ls -lght /mnt/sda1/
ls -lght /mnt/sda7/
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Your solus boot menu is in /isolinux/isolinux.cfg.

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ui vesamenu.c32
timeout 50
default live

MENU RESOLUTION 1024 768
menu title Solus 4.3 (Plasma)
menu background splash.png
menu color screen       37;40      #80ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR border       30;44   #40ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR title        1;36;44 #ffffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR sel          7;37;40 #e0ffffff #20ffffff all
MENU COLOR unsel        37;44   #50ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR help         37;40   #c0ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout_msg  37;40   #80ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout      1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR msg07        37;40   #90ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR tabmsg       31;40   #ffDEDEDE #00000000 std
MENU HIDDEN
MENU HIDDENROW 7
MENU WIDTH 78
MENU MARGIN 15
MENU ROWS 4
MENU VSHIFT 17
MENU HSHIFT 25
MENU TABMSGROW 11

label live
  menu label Start Solus
  kernel /boot/kernel
  append initrd=/boot/initrd.img root=live:CDLABEL=SolusLivePlasma ro rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.live.overlay.overlayfs=1 quiet splash --
menu default
label local
  menu label Boot from local drive
  localboot 0x80 
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I think a menu item like this added to the Porteus.cfg menu might work for solus.

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LABEL solus
MENU LABEL Boot Solus
COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd0 1 
Let us know what happens when you try it. :)
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Post#8 by Farid » 25 Apr 2022, 06:44

Ed_P wrote:
25 Apr 2022, 00:23
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Post the output of your sda1 and sda7 drives.

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ls -lght /mnt/sda1/
ls -lght /mnt/sda7/
guest@porteus:~$ ls -lght /mnt/sda1/
total 88K
drwxr-xr-x 56 root 4.0K Apr 21 17:04 etc/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root 4.0K Apr 14 16:01 var/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root 4.0K Apr 14 15:57 snap/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 4.0K Apr 14 15:30 boot/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 49 Apr 14 15:30 initrd.img -> boot/initrd-com.solus-project.current.5.15.32-213
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 42 Apr 14 15:30 vmlinuz -> boot/com.solus-project.current.5.15.32-213
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Apr 14 15:29 sbin/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Apr 14 15:26 bin/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root 4.0K Apr 3 23:43 root/
drwxr-xr-x 11 root 4.0K Jan 27 21:38 usr/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root 4.0K Sep 28 2021 lib64/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root 4.0K Sep 17 2021 mnt/
drwxrwxrwt 3 root 4.0K Sep 17 2021 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x 24 root 4.0K Sep 17 2021 run/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 5 Sep 17 2021 lib -> lib64/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 4.0K Jul 9 2021 home/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Jul 9 2021 media/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Feb 3 2021 dev/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Feb 3 2021 srv/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Feb 3 2021 proc/
drwx------ 2 root 16K Feb 3 2021 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4.0K Feb 3 2021 sys/
guest@porteus:~$ ls -lght /mnt/sda7/
total 28K
dr-xr-xr-x 7 root 4.0K Apr 23 09:58 porteus/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root 4.0K Apr 23 09:58 boot/
-r--r--r-- 1 root 1.5K Apr 23 09:58 USB_INSTALLATION.txt
drwx------ 2 root 16K Apr 23 09:57 lost+found/
guest@porteus:~$

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Post#9 by Farid » 25 Apr 2022, 06:51

Ed_P wrote:
25 Apr 2022, 00:23

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I think a menu item like this added to the Porteus.cfg menu might work for solus.

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LABEL solus
MENU LABEL Boot Solus
COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd0 1 
Let us know what happens when you try it. :)
there is no boot menu or grub for porteus. its directly booted and enter in porteus
how it possible to add solus to boot menu?
and os-prober just show solus boot on my system:
sudo os-prober
Password:
/dev/sda1:Solus (4.3):Solus:linux

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Post#10 by Ed_P » 25 Apr 2022, 15:28

Farid wrote:
25 Apr 2022, 06:51
there is no boot menu or grub for porteus. its directly booted and enter in porteus
:o Do you have a sda0 partition and if so please post the output of a ls -lght /mnt/sda0/ command.
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