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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Problem with scientific Linux multiboot Post 302891403 by LMHmedchem on Wednesday 5th of March 2014 01:43:57 PM
Old 03-05-2014
Problem with scientific Linux multiboot

Hello,

I have a multi-boot system with windows and openSuse. The boot loader is from Suse and the menu worked fine. Today I installed Scientific Linux and am having trouble with the boot loader. The SL install is on a different drive than the windows and Suse. As is typical, the SL installer has a boot loader configuration setup and no identifiable way to just add SL to the existing boot loader. When I re-booted after install, I got the suse boot loader with no entry for SL.

I tried super grub disk 2, but I got an error when I tried to boot SL. I tried Boot Repair Disk, but the advanced options I was expecting were greyed out. Normally I would install grub to the MBR of all disks, but those options were not available. I ran it anyway, but now the system just boots into windows.

This process is always very frustrating. There should be a tool that you can boot from a CD that will find all of your OSs and just let you configure your boot loader as you want it. Can someone let me know the best way to get this set up to boot from all my OSs? In Ubuntu, I knew how to run update-grub and that would generally fix issues like this. Is there an equivalent to run in openSuse or a boot tool I can run to fix this?

LMHmedchem
 

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BOOTCTL(1)							      bootctl								BOOTCTL(1)

NAME
bootctl - Control the firmware and boot manager settings SYNOPSIS
bootctl [OPTIONS...] status bootctl [OPTIONS...] list bootctl [OPTIONS...] update bootctl [OPTIONS...] install bootctl [OPTIONS...] remove DESCRIPTION
bootctl checks, updates, installs or removes the boot loader from the current system. bootctl status checks and prints the currently installed versions of the boot loader binaries and all current EFI boot variables. bootctl list displays all configured boot loader entries. bootctl update updates all installed versions of systemd-boot, if the current version is newer than the version installed in the EFI system partition. This also includes the EFI default/fallback loader at /EFI/BOOT/BOOT*.EFI. A systemd-boot entry in the EFI boot variables is created if there is no current entry. The created entry will be added to the end of the boot order list. bootctl install installs systemd-boot into the EFI system partition. A copy of systemd-boot will be stored as the EFI default/fallback loader at /EFI/BOOT/BOOT*.EFI. A systemd-boot entry in the EFI boot variables is created and added to the top of the boot order list. bootctl remove removes all installed versions of systemd-boot from the EFI system partition, and removes systemd-boot from the EFI boot variables. If no command is passed, status is implied. OPTIONS
The following options are understood: -h, --help Print a short help text and exit. --version Print a short version string and exit. --path= Path to the EFI System Partition (ESP). If not specified, /efi, /boot, and /boot/efi are checked in turn. It is recommended to mount the ESP to /boot, if possible. -p, --print-path This option modifies the behaviour of status. Just print the path to the EFI System Partition (ESP) to standard output and exit. --no-variables Do not touch the EFI boot variables. EXIT STATUS
On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise. SEE ALSO
Boot loader specification[1] systemd boot loader interface[2] NOTES
1. Boot loader specification https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec 2. systemd boot loader interface https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface systemd 237 BOOTCTL(1)
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