leejosepho
Distinguished Member
Following months of trial-and-error in just about every area imaginable, I now have four Windows systems and three Linux systems booting on my machine ... and I am doing that with four inter-linked boot menus:
1) Win7's BCD offering Win7 and links to all other menus;
2) XP's "boot.ini" offering XP, 2K, 98 and the Arch menu;
3) Mint 9's menu offering Mint and a return to Win7's BCD;
4) Arch's menu offering Arch and links back to everything else.
All of that is working perfectly in spite of my having four types of GRUB involved:
1) GRUB4DOS ("grldr" from "boot.ini") presents the Arch menu;
2) EasyBCD's NeoGRUB presents the Mint 9 menu;
3) Puppy's GRUB wrote part of my "menu.lst" being used on (hd0,0) "C";
4) Arch's GRUB wrote its entries I manually added to my "menu.lst" on "C".
Here is my problem:
As instructed, Arch's GRUB has placed its own "menu.lst" in "/boot/grub" on its own "/boot" partition, but I am not using that "menu.lst" to boot Arch. So, and if I am understanding things correctly, I will have trouble later after Arch updates its "menu.lst" I am not using to boot Arch.
I have used EasyBCD to add Mint 9 to Win7's BCD, but I was not able to have EasyBCD do the same for Arch. So, I have used BCDEdit to add Arch to Win7's BCD, but I that entry sends my machine to "grldr" on "C" rather than to Arch's own GRUB on its own partition.
I hope I am explaining this well ...
I need to have a BCD entry for Arch's own "menu.lst" in its own "/boot/grub" folder on its own "/boot" partition, and I do not know how to make that happen.
Any suggestions?!
And of course, I thank you so very much.
1) Win7's BCD offering Win7 and links to all other menus;
2) XP's "boot.ini" offering XP, 2K, 98 and the Arch menu;
3) Mint 9's menu offering Mint and a return to Win7's BCD;
4) Arch's menu offering Arch and links back to everything else.
All of that is working perfectly in spite of my having four types of GRUB involved:
1) GRUB4DOS ("grldr" from "boot.ini") presents the Arch menu;
2) EasyBCD's NeoGRUB presents the Mint 9 menu;
3) Puppy's GRUB wrote part of my "menu.lst" being used on (hd0,0) "C";
4) Arch's GRUB wrote its entries I manually added to my "menu.lst" on "C".
Here is my problem:
As instructed, Arch's GRUB has placed its own "menu.lst" in "/boot/grub" on its own "/boot" partition, but I am not using that "menu.lst" to boot Arch. So, and if I am understanding things correctly, I will have trouble later after Arch updates its "menu.lst" I am not using to boot Arch.
I have used EasyBCD to add Mint 9 to Win7's BCD, but I was not able to have EasyBCD do the same for Arch. So, I have used BCDEdit to add Arch to Win7's BCD, but I that entry sends my machine to "grldr" on "C" rather than to Arch's own GRUB on its own partition.
I hope I am explaining this well ...
I need to have a BCD entry for Arch's own "menu.lst" in its own "/boot/grub" folder on its own "/boot" partition, and I do not know how to make that happen.
Any suggestions?!
And of course, I thank you so very much.
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