Reading Grub 2 Custom Menu's was very helpful, thanks!
I installed Devuan over LMDE6 and the triple booted system run's fine now.
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Reading Grub 2 Custom Menu's was very helpful, thanks!
I installed Devuan over LMDE6 and the triple booted system run's fine now.
Directories (folders) that are locked are generally owned by root. So yes, it is normal for some things on the system.
The only way around that is to become root to view it and or change ownership...
Agreed:-
It's been on thing after another since the new year with getting my desktop and all 3 distro's right.
Finally had success with getting Devuan installed where LMDE6 used to be.
Oh, and btw, since...
Booted into Debian 12 the output was:
When Slackware and Debian get a new kernel I update-grub in LMDE6 and reboot and all distro's boot w/o fail.
So thinking on what you said, it must...
Yes, Debian and Slackware are each on separate HDD's.
I'll check the fstab files on Debian and LMDE6 for a template. I understand now, to use the correct UUID for the right drive and partition....
Yes, I'm using LMDE6 as the primary bootloader. Grub shows LMDE6 at the top, Debian second in the Grub Menu and my Slackware installation third in the Grub Menu list. All 3 distributions boot fine.
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Slackware is already in my Debian Grub Menu so that's the good news.
Do you recommend that I perform a fresh installation of Slackware 15?
There are a number of ways to get started with Ubuntu.
The best way to get acquainted with Linux is to try it.
To do that download the Ubuntu .iso to your computer. Once that's done you'll want to...
Thanks for explaining yancek.
I followed those instructions because I thought it was the correct way to go. I didn't know to install Slackware in UEFI mode.
The Slackware link says:
To get...
Grub2 Custom Menus is very helpful-:D
The link: How to have a custom Grub 2 menu that is maintenance I'm reading it now.....thank you!
Thanks for the Slackware UEFI link.
You said: "But you may be able to boot UEFI from your install and then create a boot stanza to directly boot Slackware."
I'll have to do some reading as I'm...
Output form Slackware:
root@slackware64:~# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 swap swap defaults 0 ...
Thanks for chiming in yancek.
The vfat partition on sda3 is a 300 MiB partition for the /boot/efi.
No, these were not being booted from the BIOS firmware.
The reason why there is a BIOS boot...
Thank you Olfred for the information you explained. I'll go and read about using 40_custom and custom menu and the other link's you posted.
I can delete one of the swap partitions on the Slackware...
Here's the Paste Bin link to the output of the boot info. script:
https://pastebin.com/gn2FJyVU
Thanks for the swift reply, Olfred-
I'll have to make a Live USB of 'Boot Repair' as my desktop does not have a cdrom drive.
Will using the dd command work?
When you make your own 40_custom...
Upon installing LMDE6 I've had unusual behavior with Grub and other unexplained issues on a friend's custom built desktop as well.
After installing LMDE6 on my bf's desktop and removing the...
When you created your partitions for your Ubuntu install did you make the /ext 4 partition bootable with a flag?
Did you create a /boot partition as well?
***When creating partitions manually...
Glad things are working now:-
Happy New Year!
You're welcome.
Enjoy the challenge and Happy New Year!
Not using your pc in several months may be the culprit.
When the os doesn't get the updates from the repo's that it needs things break.
You could try to restore your installation provided that...
You could start by studying the various installers that Linux Developers use to make the operating systems go through the install process and how they work. Just an idea--
Like Calamares for...
Thanks! Enjoy the Holday!
Another way to look at partitions is to open gparted and have a look at the partitions.
If you have trouble looking for the other drive go the the drop down menu in gparted in the upper right hand...