Porteus

machine was running debian with grub2 as boot loader then I installed porteus on spare partition.
how to update lilo (or syslinux or whatever is responsible for booting now) to add debian entry?
I understand I need to add some lines somewhere with image, initrd and location (sda1).

if you had a bootloader already - what was the point of running Porteus installer?
you could add Porteus to your Grub2 instead ....

anyway - please show us your Grub2 config.

fanthom wrote:if you had a bootloader already - what was the point of running Porteus installer?
you could add Porteus to your Grub2 instead ....

I didn't think I would need to boot to debian anymore...
I just kept the partitions to save data.

I want to boot it again to compare software versions and behaviour or even convert some debs.

edit:

I could use supergrub cd or something but I want to learn how to dual boot porteus.

edit2:

documentation covers windows-porteus dual boot scenario only

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
function gfxmode {
set gfxpayload="${1}"
}
set linux_gfx_mode=1024x768
export linux_gfx_mode
menuentry 'siduction 2013.2.0 paintitblack (lxqt) GNU/Linux' --class siduction --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-bead1e15-7d87-4a3a-840f-120f596ff64f' {
load_video
gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 --hint='hd0,msdos1' bead1e15-7d87-4a3a-840f-120f596ff64f
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bead1e15-7d87-4a3a-840f-120f596ff64f
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.15-5.towo-siduction-amd64 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.15-5.towo-siduction-amd64 root=UUID=bead1e15-7d87-4a3a-840f-120f596ff64f ro quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.15-5.towo-siduction-amd64
}

Personnally to work with porteus my preference is really to boot with grub legacy. Post on easily reinstalling porteus with grub legacy:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=946

Some information on grub2 and porteus:
viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1790

Repairing or reinstalling grub2:
http://www.howtogeek.com/114884/how-to- ... wont-boot/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 ... 20GRUB%202

I know how to repair grub but I thought it would be easier to edit porteus.cfg or lilo.conf instead of booting *buntu.
grub legacy thread - bookmarked, I will investigate later.
thanks for help.

Syslinux is quite similar to grub legacy with some small differences in syntax. 8)

Here are some grub legacy entries for debian type systems, crunchbang, ubuntu:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=15748
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.p ... 94900.html

An example crunchbang adapted to syslinux menu entry:

looks like syslinux is looking for debian kernel in porteus partition (sda4)
I copied debian's files to porteus to get it booting.

# mkdir /mnt/sda4/boot/syslinux/debian
# cp /mnt/sda1/boot/* /mnt/sda4/boot/syslinux/debian/

Do we have a solution?

What about changing to root=/dev/sda4 as in:

It works with root=/dev/sda1 (sda4 = porteus)

Anyway debian doesnt boot to desktop, it hangs right after mounting sda2 (/home) that's probably because I shrank the partition.
Nevermind.
I have just replaced debian with salix and changed entry in porteus.cfg: (again I had to copy kernel to porteus partition - sda4/boot/syslinux)
The problem is solved (till next kernel upgrade on salix side).
Thanx!

Thus salix is on sda1, isn't it?

yes

(again I had to copy kernel to porteus partition - sda4/boot/syslinux)

yes - seems that syslinux wont allow you to load kernel from other partition (unlike grub) but you could install syslinux in salix as well, set the timeout to 0 and chainload to /dev/sda1 as per this thread:
link

on the other hand i remember someone posting a solution to similar problem on our forum and he was using syslinux only - cant find it right now...

t you could install syslinux in salix

nah I want to keep it the way it is.
portreus is my main OS , salix is installed on 'testing' partition it may be replaced soon by opensuse fedora anything

You need to use extlinux, according to this archlinux thread:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy ... ux_systems

I will try that.