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Old 04-02-2013, 10:26 AM   #1
Lilgamesh
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Help regarding dual boot slack 14 with other Linux (uses grub/grub2 and UUID)


I am trying to install multiple distros on my test laptop. Till now I have used fuduntu/mint/fedora 18/bothi every thing goes well. At some point all were installed without a problem.
Now I want to add Slackware on it. I run Slackware on one my dektops.
I do all this just for fun and learning.

When I first installed Slackware, there was Fedora 18 and Mint. During Slackware install I skipped lilo as I know how to update grub. So I updated grub in Fedora and Slackware was detected fine and a menu entry was added. But Slackware don't want to run as it is failing to load root file system. I know Slackware uses lilo.

I decided to go other way around. I wiped out the hard drive. All my data is on a separate partition. So no worries. I installed Slackware first. Everything worked well. After searching forums I have even created initrd.gz (with the command suggested by /usr/share/mkinitrd/... script) and updated lilo and fstab so that every thing is working with UUID. Now I tried to install Mint. Mint detected Slackware and installed grub. Now neither Mint nor Slackware boots, Grub puts me on maintenance console.

Looks like there is some problem dual booting Slackware with other Linux versions. I at least want Fuduntu, Mint and Slackware on my laptop. Please suggest me right direction to go.
 
Old 04-02-2013, 09:07 PM   #2
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Looks like bit difficult. I have also seen some videos in youtube claiming that slackware is running from grub2.....????

I am still working and making good progress. I think I am getting there.
 
Old 04-02-2013, 09:23 PM   #3
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Put your configuration here, better said your grub.cfg
 
Old 04-02-2013, 10:41 PM   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blackv1rus View Post
Put your configuration here, better said your grub.cfg
Thank you very much for your support.
I got it working. Now Slackware is booting from grub2 installed by fuduntu. All slackware kernels are booting fine with advanced options from grub2.

It is good for now.

I will work further to generate grub.cfg correctly with grub2-mkconfig. I think this involves renaming and/or generating img files for initrd.
 
Old 04-02-2013, 11:06 PM   #5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lilgamesh View Post
Thank you very much for your support.
I got it working. Now Slackware is booting from grub2 installed by fuduntu. All slackware kernels are booting fine with advanced options from grub2.

It is good for now.

I will work further to generate grub.cfg correctly with grub2-mkconfig. I think this involves renaming and/or generating img files for initrd.
Try...

Code:
#! /bin/sh
set -e
# grub-mkconfig helper script.
# Copyright (C) 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# GRUB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# GRUB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with GRUB.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

prefix="/usr"
exec_prefix="${prefix}"
datarootdir="${prefix}/share"

. "${datarootdir}/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib"

export TEXTDOMAIN=grub
export TEXTDOMAINDIR="${datarootdir}/locale"

CLASS="--class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os"

if [ "x${GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR}" = "x" ] ; then
  OS=GNU/Linux
else
  OS="${GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR} GNU/Linux"
  CLASS="--class $(echo ${GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR} | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]') ${CLASS}"
fi

# loop-AES arranges things so that /dev/loop/X can be our root device, but
# the initrds that Linux uses don't like that.
case ${GRUB_DEVICE} in
  /dev/loop/*|/dev/loop[0-9])
    GRUB_DEVICE=`losetup ${GRUB_DEVICE} | sed -e "s/^[^(]*(\([^)]\+\)).*/\1/"`
  ;;
esac

if [ "x${GRUB_DEVICE_UUID}" = "x" ] || [ "x${GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID}" = "xtrue" ] \
    || ! test -e "/dev/disk/by-uuid/${GRUB_DEVICE_UUID}" ; then
  LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE=${GRUB_DEVICE}
else
  LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE=UUID=${GRUB_DEVICE_UUID}
fi

linux_entry ()
{
  os="$1"
  tag="$2"
  version="$3"
  recovery="$4"
  args="$5"
  if ${recovery} ; then
    title="$(gettext "%s, with Linux %s [%s] (recovery mode)")"
  else
    title="$(gettext "%s, with Linux %s [%s]")"
  fi
  printf "menuentry \"${title}\" ${CLASS} {\n" "${os}" "${version}" "${tag}"
  save_default_entry | sed -e "s/^/\t/"

  # Use ELILO's generic "efifb" when it's known to be available.
  # FIXME: We need an interface to select vesafb in case efifb can't be used.
  if [ "x$GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" = x ]; then
      if grep -qx "CONFIG_FB_EFI=y" /boot/config-${version} 2> /dev/null \
          && grep -qx "CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y" /boot/config-${version} 2> /dev/null; then
          cat << EOF
        set gfxpayload=keep
EOF
      fi
  else
          cat << EOF
        set gfxpayload=$GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX
EOF
  fi

  if [ -z "${prepare_boot_cache}" ]; then
    prepare_boot_cache="$(prepare_grub_to_access_device ${GRUB_DEVICE_BOOT} | sed -e "s/^/\t/")"
  fi
  printf '%s\n' "${prepare_boot_cache}"
  cat << EOF
        echo    $(printf "$(gettext "Loading Linux %s ...")" ${version})
        linux   ${rel_dirname}/${basename} root=${linux_root_device_thisversion} ro ${args}
EOF
  if test -n "${initrd}" ; then
    cat << EOF
        echo    $(gettext "Loading initial ramdisk ...")
        initrd  ${rel_dirname}/${initrd}
EOF
  fi
  cat << EOF
}
EOF
}


process_list ()
{
    mylist="$1"
    tag="$2"
    initrd_allowed="$3"
    while [ "x$mylist" != "x" ] ; do
        linux=`version_find_latest $mylist`
        echo "Found linux image: $linux" >&2
        basename=`basename $linux`
        dirname=`dirname $linux`
        rel_dirname=`make_system_path_relative_to_its_root $dirname`
        version=`echo $basename | sed -e "s,^[^0-9]*-,,g"`
        alt_version=`echo $version | sed -e "s,\.old$,,g"`
        linux_root_device_thisversion="${LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE}"
        initrd=
        if [ "x${initrd_allowed}" = "xtrue" ]; then
            for i in "initrd-${version}.gz" "initrd.gz" \
                "initrd.img-${version}" "initrd-${version}.img" \
                "initrd-${version}" "initrd.img-${alt_version}" \
                "initrd-${alt_version}.img" "initrd-${alt_version}"; do
                if test -e "${dirname}/${i}" ; then
                    initrd="$i"
                    break
                fi
            done
            if test -n "${initrd}" ; then
                echo "Found initrd image: ${dirname}/${initrd}" >&2
            else
                # "UUID=" magic is parsed by initrds.  Since there's no initrd, it can't work here.
                linux_root_device_thisversion=${GRUB_DEVICE}
            fi
        else
            # "UUID=" magic is parsed by initrds.  Since there's no initrd, it can't work here.
            linux_root_device_thisversion=${GRUB_DEVICE}
        fi

        linux_entry "${OS}" "${tag}" "${version}" false \
            "${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX} ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT}"
        if [ "x${GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY}" != "xtrue" ]; then
            linux_entry "${OS}" "${tag}" "${version}" true \
                "single ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX}"
        fi

        mylist=`echo $mylist | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -vx $linux | tr '\n' ' '`
    done
}

prepare_boot_cache=

list=`for i in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-generic-* /vmlinu[xz]-generic-* ; do
        if grub_file_is_not_garbage "$i" ; then echo -n "$i " ; fi
      done`

process_list "${list}" "generic" "true"

list=`for i in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-huge-* /vmlinu[xz]-huge-* ; do
        if grub_file_is_not_garbage "$i" ; then echo -n "$i " ; fi
      done`
process_list "${list}" "huge" "false"
...I've been using that as /etc/grub.d/09_slackware_linux for a couple of years now.
 
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Old 04-03-2013, 02:14 PM   #6
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Cranium View Post
Try...

Code:
#! /bin/sh
set -e
# grub-mkconfig helper script.
# Copyright (C) 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# GRUB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# GRUB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with GRUB.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

prefix="/usr"
exec_prefix="${prefix}"
datarootdir="${prefix}/share"

. "${datarootdir}/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib"

export TEXTDOMAIN=grub
export TEXTDOMAINDIR="${datarootdir}/locale"

CLASS="--class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os"

if [ "x${GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR}" = "x" ] ; then
  OS=GNU/Linux
else
  OS="${GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR} GNU/Linux"
  CLASS="--class $(echo ${GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR} | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]') ${CLASS}"
fi

# loop-AES arranges things so that /dev/loop/X can be our root device, but
# the initrds that Linux uses don't like that.
case ${GRUB_DEVICE} in
  /dev/loop/*|/dev/loop[0-9])
    GRUB_DEVICE=`losetup ${GRUB_DEVICE} | sed -e "s/^[^(]*(\([^)]\+\)).*/\1/"`
  ;;
esac

if [ "x${GRUB_DEVICE_UUID}" = "x" ] || [ "x${GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID}" = "xtrue" ] \
    || ! test -e "/dev/disk/by-uuid/${GRUB_DEVICE_UUID}" ; then
  LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE=${GRUB_DEVICE}
else
  LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE=UUID=${GRUB_DEVICE_UUID}
fi

linux_entry ()
{
  os="$1"
  tag="$2"
  version="$3"
  recovery="$4"
  args="$5"
  if ${recovery} ; then
    title="$(gettext "%s, with Linux %s [%s] (recovery mode)")"
  else
    title="$(gettext "%s, with Linux %s [%s]")"
  fi
  printf "menuentry \"${title}\" ${CLASS} {\n" "${os}" "${version}" "${tag}"
  save_default_entry | sed -e "s/^/\t/"

  # Use ELILO's generic "efifb" when it's known to be available.
  # FIXME: We need an interface to select vesafb in case efifb can't be used.
  if [ "x$GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" = x ]; then
      if grep -qx "CONFIG_FB_EFI=y" /boot/config-${version} 2> /dev/null \
          && grep -qx "CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y" /boot/config-${version} 2> /dev/null; then
          cat << EOF
        set gfxpayload=keep
EOF
      fi
  else
          cat << EOF
        set gfxpayload=$GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX
EOF
  fi

  if [ -z "${prepare_boot_cache}" ]; then
    prepare_boot_cache="$(prepare_grub_to_access_device ${GRUB_DEVICE_BOOT} | sed -e "s/^/\t/")"
  fi
  printf '%s\n' "${prepare_boot_cache}"
  cat << EOF
        echo    $(printf "$(gettext "Loading Linux %s ...")" ${version})
        linux   ${rel_dirname}/${basename} root=${linux_root_device_thisversion} ro ${args}
EOF
  if test -n "${initrd}" ; then
    cat << EOF
        echo    $(gettext "Loading initial ramdisk ...")
        initrd  ${rel_dirname}/${initrd}
EOF
  fi
  cat << EOF
}
EOF
}


process_list ()
{
    mylist="$1"
    tag="$2"
    initrd_allowed="$3"
    while [ "x$mylist" != "x" ] ; do
        linux=`version_find_latest $mylist`
        echo "Found linux image: $linux" >&2
        basename=`basename $linux`
        dirname=`dirname $linux`
        rel_dirname=`make_system_path_relative_to_its_root $dirname`
        version=`echo $basename | sed -e "s,^[^0-9]*-,,g"`
        alt_version=`echo $version | sed -e "s,\.old$,,g"`
        linux_root_device_thisversion="${LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE}"
        initrd=
        if [ "x${initrd_allowed}" = "xtrue" ]; then
            for i in "initrd-${version}.gz" "initrd.gz" \
                "initrd.img-${version}" "initrd-${version}.img" \
                "initrd-${version}" "initrd.img-${alt_version}" \
                "initrd-${alt_version}.img" "initrd-${alt_version}"; do
                if test -e "${dirname}/${i}" ; then
                    initrd="$i"
                    break
                fi
            done
            if test -n "${initrd}" ; then
                echo "Found initrd image: ${dirname}/${initrd}" >&2
            else
                # "UUID=" magic is parsed by initrds.  Since there's no initrd, it can't work here.
                linux_root_device_thisversion=${GRUB_DEVICE}
            fi
        else
            # "UUID=" magic is parsed by initrds.  Since there's no initrd, it can't work here.
            linux_root_device_thisversion=${GRUB_DEVICE}
        fi

        linux_entry "${OS}" "${tag}" "${version}" false \
            "${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX} ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT}"
        if [ "x${GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY}" != "xtrue" ]; then
            linux_entry "${OS}" "${tag}" "${version}" true \
                "single ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX}"
        fi

        mylist=`echo $mylist | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -vx $linux | tr '\n' ' '`
    done
}

prepare_boot_cache=

list=`for i in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-generic-* /vmlinu[xz]-generic-* ; do
        if grub_file_is_not_garbage "$i" ; then echo -n "$i " ; fi
      done`

process_list "${list}" "generic" "true"

list=`for i in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-huge-* /vmlinu[xz]-huge-* ; do
        if grub_file_is_not_garbage "$i" ; then echo -n "$i " ; fi
      done`
process_list "${list}" "huge" "false"
...I've been using that as /etc/grub.d/09_slackware_linux for a couple of years now.

Thankyou so much for your help.

I will try that. After adding this, we need to disable the os prober on slack right?
 
  


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