Porteus

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?

I don't think Porteus bootloader is grub, but I could be wrong. How were you booting solus before Porteus?

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

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

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

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.

Added in 2 hours 21 minutes 2 seconds:
This sound similar Farid? https://askubuntu.com/questions/1362630 ... -grub-menu

Ed_P wrote: ↑

24 Apr 2022, 18:38

where is the grub path?
yes solus grub can add other distro and the windows

Farid wrote: ↑

24 Apr 2022, 19:33

where is the grub path?

No idea, I've never used solus.

Added in 49 minutes 27 seconds:
In Porteus it's in /boot/syslinux/.

Added in 53 minutes 12 seconds:
Post the output of your sda1 and sda7 drives. Added in 1 hour 33 minutes 35 seconds:
Your solus boot menu is in /isolinux/isolinux.cfg. Added in 14 minutes 39 seconds:
I think a menu item like this added to the Porteus.cfg menu might work for solus.
Let us know what happens when you try it.

Ed_P wrote: ↑

25 Apr 2022, 00:23

Added in 53 minutes 12 seconds:
Post the output of your sda1 and sda7 drives. 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:~$

Ed_P wrote: ↑

25 Apr 2022, 00:23

Added in 14 minutes 39 seconds:
I think a menu item like this added to the Porteus.cfg menu might work for solus.

Code: Select all

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

Farid wrote: ↑

25 Apr 2022, 06:51

there is no boot menu or grub for porteus. its directly booted and enter in porteus

Do you have a sda0 partition and if so please post the output of a ls -lght /mnt/sda0/ command.