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Hi again - I am back!,
I know I know - another crazy install. So I installed PopOS and somehow it would not install using my existing EFI partition. So I created another one - by the way - no where near the first partition of the drive. Initially after install - PopOS booted automatically. It understandably replaced it's EFI boot ahead of G2W's. So hitting Esc during boot - I selected G2W efi file, booted into windows (and waited and waited and waited) and started G2W and it automatically noticed that it was no longer the first EFI to boot and asked if I wanted to change that. So with a Yes - it fixed all that. But now I am trying to add PopOS to the G2W menu and not sure how to make that happen.
I tried adding as a typical Ubuntu but it fails. I will get more info on all this - but if there is a trick I need to keep in mind with having two EFI partitions? - let me know.
Thanks as always!
Nevermind... Fixed it.
It was not any sort of crazy thing to do with the second EFI partition at all...
Turns out the kernal etc are inside /boot/ folder and I just had to add /boot/ in front of vmlinuz and initrd.img
Here is the (simple) working code...
set reviewpause=2
set rootuuid=dd1506ea-6792-46de-844d-e7c6b133474c
getpartition uuid $rootuuid root
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=UUID=$rootuuid verbose nomodeset
initrd /boot/initrd.img
Thanks again,
TC
Hi again Tomas,
I am considering the addition of a new “import” function to Grub2Win.
It would read the grub.cfg file copied from your Linux boot partition and create the appropriate code in the Windows grub boot entries. This would help folks who want to add an OS not supported by Grub2Win.
Would you mind helping me out with this. Please send me a copy of your /boot/grub/grub.cfg file from your Linux partition.
This way, I can write the code to properly import various systems.
Thanks again,
Dave
On Jan 30, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Tomas Catone voidnwarranties@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Nevermind... Fixed it.
It was not any sort of crazy thing to do with the second EFI partition at all...
Turns out the kernal etc are inside /boot/ folder and I just had to add /boot/ in front of vmlinuz and initrd.img
Here is the (simple) working code...
set reviewpause=2
set rootuuid=dd1506ea-6792-46de-844d-e7c6b133474c
getpartition uuid $rootuuid root
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=UUID=$rootuuid verbose nomodeset
initrd /boot/initrd.img
Thanks again,
TC
PopOS multi boot from second EFI partition
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Sure - I'd love to help!
Okay - first things first - I probably sound smarter in this forum than I really am so prepare for silly questions or incorrect submissions...
But anyway - to be clear about my current setup - I am using G2W to give me options to boot:
Windows 10
Peppermint Linux
Manjaro Linux
PopOS Linux
Android X86 19.10
Android PrimeOS
During the install of each of these OS's - grub install may or maynot have seen and added the other OS's in their grub setup... I think...
So - I will try and send you Grub files from them all? Or specifically - what would suit you best?
TC
Hi Tomas,
Please send them all. Gives me more examples to test with.
Thanks again,
Dave
On Jan 30, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Tomas Catone voidnwarranties@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Sure - I'd love to help!
Okay - first things first - I probably sound smarter in this forum than I really am so prepare for silly questions or incorrect submissions...
But anyway - to be clear about my current setup - I am using G2W to give me options to boot:
Windows 10
Peppermint Linux
Manjaro Linux
PopOS Linux
Android X86 19.10
Android PrimeOS
During the install of each of these OS's - grub install may or maynot have seen and added the other OS's in their grub setup... I think...
So - I will try and send you Grub files from them all? Or specifically - what would suit you best?
TC
PopOS multi boot from second EFI partition
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Okay - Here are 3 files.
Manjaro.txt
Peppermint.txt
These two files were created during install by grub.
custom.PopOS.txt is the file I created inside Grub2Win to get the latest linux install - PopOS to boot.
Still working on where my Android installs put their grub files. It has been a few months since I installed Android - but I swear it installed grub?
Anyway - I hope this helps. I will post again when I find more info.
TC
I thought this might help too - it is the file that G2W is currently using.
Let me know what (and how) else I can do to help.
TC
Here's my other grub files.
Last edit: Ed P 2020-02-02