{"id":266,"date":"2013-08-21T07:35:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/kb\/?page_id=266"},"modified":"2013-09-06T10:08:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T15:08:38","slug":"linux","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/neogrub\/linux\/","title":{"rendered":"NeoGrub Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adding a Linux Entry to NeoGrub<\/h2>\n

NeoGrub is especially useful when it comes to adding a *nix-based operating system to the Windows Vista\/7\/8 bootloader without ever having to install GRUB or Lilo anywhere – not to the bootsector and most certainly not to the MBR either.<\/p>\n

Sample menu.lst for booting into Ubuntu (compatible with almost all other Linux distros too, though):<\/p>\n

# NeoSmart NeoGrub Bootloader Configuration File\r\n#\r\n# This NeoGrub menu.lst file should be located at \\NST\\menu.lst of the boot drive.\r\n# Please see the EasyBCD Documentation for information on how to create\/modify entries\r\n\r\ntitle Ubuntu\r\nfind --set-root \/boot\/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic\r\nkernel \/boot\/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic ro root=\/dev\/sda2\r\ninitrd \/boot\/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic<\/pre>\n
Given the sample file above, NeoGrub would display a menu with one entry (Ubuntu). When you select Ubuntu from the NeoGrub list, it’ll try to find the second partition of the second hard drive, and boot from it.<\/p>\n
You’ll need to change a couple of things (everything in red) to make this work on your machine though:<\/p>\n
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  1. Replace all occurrences of\u00a02.6.17-10-generic<\/code>\u00a0with your current kernel. You can either browse through the \/boot\/ folder and find the right number, or use the\u00a0uname<\/a><\/code>\u00a0command in Linux.<\/li>\n
  2. Replace\u00a0\/dev\/sda2<\/code>\u00a0with the correct name for your “\/” partition. See our document on\u00a0drive letters and numbers<\/a>\u00a0for more info.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Since NeoGrub uses GRUB as the base framework, you can refer to the\u00a0official GRUB documentation<\/a>\u00a0for help with any specific syntax issues. Any code that works in GRUB will work in NeoGrub without a problem. However, you cannot use code from NeoGrub in GRUB, since NeoGrub has a couple more features not available in the vanilla GRUB code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Adding a Linux Entry to NeoGrub NeoGrub is especially useful when it comes to adding a *nix-based operating system to the Windows Vista\/7\/8 bootloader without ever having to install GRUB or Lilo anywhere – not to the bootsector and most certainly not to the MBR either. Sample menu.lst for booting into Ubuntu (compatible with almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":0,"parent":262,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-266","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t