How to have a graphical GRUB (Updated Package Available)

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droope · #101 Post by **droope** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 23:40

Wow

Amazing job! Congratulations!

kazzamozz · #102 Post by **kazzamozz** » Sun 11 Oct 2009, 03:16

Hooray
I wish I had spotted this prior to setting up my sons system. This looks awesome I will be trying it out this week. The standard Grub sucks.

Will let you know how it goes. I learnt quickly what not to do in a grub menu, and have his system set up with multiple puplets to choose from. Now I can add a bit of bling for him

Cheers for this

Kazzamozz

Aitch · #103 Post by **Aitch** » Sun 11 Oct 2009, 12:33

Fully agree with all the support for this - mainstream it!!

I have called for it's inclusion into 4.4CE

Catdude, do you know if it can be modified to add a list of SFS's to be loaded, maybe as a sub-menu?
I have suggested it in that thread....

4.4CE here

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=105

Aitch

CatDude · #104 Post by **CatDude** » Sun 11 Oct 2009, 14:35

Hi

@ droope & kazzamozz
Thanks, you are both very welcome.

Aitch wrote: Catdude, do you know if it can be modified to add a list of SFS's to be loaded, maybe as a sub-menu?

I honestly wouldn't have a clue about that mate.
In fact i don't think i fully understand the question,
surely Puppy controls what .sfs files gets loaded, doesn't he ?

CatDude
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Aitch · #105 Post by **Aitch** » Sun 11 Oct 2009, 16:57

OK....I don't know, either....
Someone will pick it up, hopefully....I'm just seeding ideas, atm

Aitch

Roger Hunter · #106 Post by **Roger Hunter** » Fri 04 Dec 2009, 17:41

catdude;

I have the same problem. I installed the .pet, reinstalled grub, reboot, and get the same old menu.lst as before.

It looks like gfxmenu isn't being executed.

Roger

CatDude · #107 Post by **CatDude** » Fri 04 Dec 2009, 19:17

Hello Roger Hunter

Roger Hunter wrote: I have the same problem. I installed the .pet, reinstalled grub, reboot, and get the same old menu.lst as before.

It looks like gfxmenu isn't being executed.

What .pet package did you use ? (please provide the link)

Could you also provide the global section from your menu.lst

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# Start GRUB global section
What is in this section here
# End GRUB global section

Also, do you have a message file: /boot/grub/whatever-message-file
if so, which one is it. (please provide the link)

What Puppy are you using and what kind of install (just so i can do a test, using the same.)

CatDude
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Roger Hunter · #108 Post by **Roger Hunter** » Fri 04 Dec 2009, 19:45

catdude;

What .pet package did you use ? (please provide the link)

It's the link on the first post of this thread.

Could you also provide the global section from your menu.lst

No, I've already reset it, sorry. But it was a copy of your example.

gfxmenu /boot/grub/message.pup2

Also, do you have a message file: /boot/grub/whatever-message-file
if so, which one is it. (please provide the link)

It's your message.pup2 on /boot/grub of sda3

What Puppy are you using and what kind of install (just so i can do a test, using the same.)

I'm multibooting several puppies plus Win XP. Puppy 4.3 is the master boot puppy on sda3.

The others are on sdb

My PC is a Compaq Presario,2.80GHz/1Gb RAM/80Gb/250Gb drives

Roger

CatDude · #109 Post by **CatDude** » Fri 04 Dec 2009, 20:11

Hello Roger

Roger Hunter wrote: It's the link on the first post of this thread.

There are two links in that first post.
One for the original package: grub-gfxboot-for-puppy.tar.gz
and another to the NEW updated package: grub-gfxboot-for-puppy-updated.tar.gz

Roger Hunter wrote: It's your message.pup2 on /boot/grub of sda3

Well, if you happened to use the original package, then that is why is did not work.
Message files: message.pup1 to message.pup16 (inclusive)
will not work with the package: grub-gfxboot-for-puppy.tar.gz

PLEASE NOTE: These messages will not work with my previous .pet package.
They are too big.

You need to use the updated package.

CatDude
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Roger Hunter · #110 Post by **Roger Hunter** » Fri 04 Dec 2009, 23:45

catdude;

Never mind. I gave up. Switched the main boot puppy to Puppy 4.3, thus losing the graphics menu stuff.

This before/after 4.31 is causing me all sorts of grief figuring out which needs what and why.

Roger

CatDude · #111 Post by **CatDude** » Sat 05 Dec 2009, 18:15

Hi

Roger Hunter wrote: Never mind. I gave up. Switched the main boot puppy to Puppy 4.3, thus losing the graphics menu stuff.

I am sorry to hear that,
i have made a few changes to my original post, in an effort to make things easier to follow.
Maybe you could take a look and see if things are any better.

I have hopefully removed all references from this thread that refer to my original package,
so there is now only the one package available.

CatDude
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Roger Hunter · #112 Post by **Roger Hunter** » Sat 05 Dec 2009, 18:54

CatDude;

I'm sorry but I'm just about to leave for the afternoon. I'll try redoing everything later tonite or tomorrow because I really would like the graphical boot menu.

Roger

Roger Hunter · #113 Post by **Roger Hunter** » Sun 06 Dec 2009, 16:57

CatDude;

Sorry, no good.

Instead of the menu I get a grub prompt.

I'm using Puppy 4.3 in sda3 for the master boot puppy

Here's the menu.lst

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# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'.  Sun Dec  6 09:18:38 2009
#
# The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/sda' is
# here '/boot/grub/mbr.sda.16780'.  You can restore it like this.
# dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.sda.16780 of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
#
# Start GRUB global section
  timeout 30
  default 3
  color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
  gfxmenu /boot/grub/pupsta1
# End GRUB global section

# Other bootable partition config begins
  title Windows (on /dev/sda1)
  rootnoverify (hd0,0)
  makeactive
  chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux (on /dev/sda3)
  root (hd0,2)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux (on /dev/sdb3)
  root (hd1,2)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb3 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux (on /dev/sdb6)
  root (hd1,5)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb6 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux (on /dev/sdb7)
  root (hd1,6)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb7 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux (on /dev/sdb8)
  root (hd1,7)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb8 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux (on /dev/sdb9)
  root (hd1,8)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb9 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux (on /dev/sdb10)
  root (hd1,9)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb10 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins
  title Linux (on /dev/sdb11)
  root (hd1,10)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb11 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends

title Install GRUB to floppy disk (on /dev/fd0)
pause Insert a formatted floppy disk and press enter.
root (hd0,2)
setup (fd0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title Install GRUB to Linux partition (on /dev/sda3)
root (hd0,2)
setup (hd0,2)
pause Press enter to continue.
title -     For help press 'c', then type: 'help'
root (hd0)
title -     For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/usage.txt'
root (hd0)

Roger

CatDude · #114 Post by **CatDude** » Sun 06 Dec 2009, 22:06

Hello Roger

Roger Hunter wrote: Sorry, no good.

Instead of the menu I get a grub prompt.

That is odd. (i'll explain why later)

There has been a lot of posts recently concerning inode sizes
and Puppies GRUB being incompatible with partitions with an inode size of 256
Here is just one such post

I am afraid to say, that my package will not work with such partitions.

From my tests,
GParted in both Puppy-4.30 and Puppy-4.31 creates partitions with an inode size of 256

GParted in both Puppy-4.20 and Puppy-4.21 creates partitions with an inode size of 128
in fact both of these versions (4.20 and 4.21) already have my graphical grub installed in them.
So if you used either of those to create your partitions and install GRUB,
you then only need to change the boot message to that which you wish to use.

As to my earlier comment "That is odd"
Well, i used Puppy-4.31 (from LiveCD with puppy pfix=ram)
to totally erase my hard drive, then create 3 partitions (1 for GRUB, 1 for Puppy-4.31 frugal, and a SWAP).
I then installed my package and copied the message file to /boot/grub
and made the necessary edit to the menu.lst

When i rebooted (i created a save file) i was greeted to the graphical GRUB boot screen (see image below)
but i was unable to boot up Puppy, i got an error message:

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Error 2: Bad file or directory type

Press any key to continue...

that is what i meant by odd.

Anyway i think this could be the reason you are having trouble getting this to work,
i have add to my original post to reflect these issues.

Hope this helps
CatDude
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Roger Hunter · #115 Post by **Roger Hunter** » Mon 07 Dec 2009, 04:34

CatDude;

That solved the problem.

I had a CD of BoxPup 421 so I deleted sda3, made a new one wit BoxPup, installed BoxPup in it and there was the graphic menu.

Happily, I did not have to recreate the sdb partitions so now I'm back in business except that MacPup won't boot. Error is bad file or directory but that's another thread.

Thanks a bunch. Things look much nicer now.

Roger

vellowax · #116 Post by **vellowax** » Mon 07 Dec 2009, 08:33

Hi catdude,

For some reason, I should use ext4 as filesystem for my partition, is there any available package, so that my NOP431 have a graphical grub too?
I was download and installed the gfx-boot-xxx.ext4-patch.pet ( I have forgotten where i was downloaded that pet ) but still won't work.

CatDude · #117 Post by **CatDude** » Mon 07 Dec 2009, 19:40

Hello Roger

Roger Hunter wrote: That solved the problem.

Glad you eventually got it sorted.

Roger Hunter wrote: Happily, I did not have to recreate the sdb partitions so now I'm back in business except that MacPup won't boot. Error is bad file or directory but that's another thread.

The partition that Macpup resides on does not have an inode size of 256 by any chance does it ?
because that Error looks awfully familiar.

CatDude
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CatDude · #118 Post by **CatDude** » Mon 07 Dec 2009, 19:47

Hello vellowax

vellowax wrote: For some reason, I should use ext4 as filesystem for my partition, is there any available package, so that my NOP431 have a graphical grub too?

As i state at the top of the first post in this thread,
my package will not work with ext4 partitions.

vellowax wrote: I was download and installed the gfx-boot-xxx.ext4-patch.pet ( I have forgotten where i was downloaded that pet ) but still won't work.

I don't know anything about that .pet,
but i wouldn't mind getting my hands on a copy of it, if you ever manage to recall where you got it from.

CatDude
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vellowax · #119 Post by **vellowax** » Tue 08 Dec 2009, 07:06

thanks catdude for your concern about my case, i think someone else might have the same problem,
i found this link.
http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/pupp ... ackages-4/
i also attach the package that i intend.

Roger Hunter · #120 Post by **Roger Hunter** » Tue 08 Dec 2009, 18:17

CatDude;

The partition that Macpup resides on does not have an inode size of 256 by any chance does it ?
because that Error looks awfully familiar.

I don't know. The partitions were made with Puppy 4.3 and Puppy 2.14, Puppy 4.3.1 and Teen Puppy all boot but MacPup won't.

Roger

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