Linux not detected by grub

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I have two partitions with Linux, /dev/sda7 and /dev/sda8

/dev/sda7 had Deeproot Linux installed (based on Ubuntu), later I installed Sabayon in /dev/sda8. It reinstalled the grub.

The problem is that it is not detecting my Deeproot Linux and is not showing it in the grub menu.

update-grub is not being recognized by Sabayon..

What am I supposed to do?

if possible post your grub.conf – Rahul Patil Mar 08 '13 at 06:53 — Rahul Patil, Mar 08 '13 at 06:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 09 '13 at 15:26

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update-grub is actually a wrapper of grub-mkconfig (or grub2-mkconfig on some system).

You can run this command as root (backup /boot/grub/grub.cfg first, or run grub-mkconfig to preview it without redirecting output) Before running the command mount the partition /dev/sda7

grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Which essentially would do the same as update-grub on Ubuntu based distros.

edited Mar 09 '13 at 15:26

Stormvirux

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answered Mar 08 '13 at 06:49

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Mounting the deepin partition and then running grub2-mkconfig solved the problem. any idea why the mount was required? – Stormvirux Mar 09 '13 at 15:07
@Stormvirux the program just scans for vmlinuz and other kernel files by names, and doesn't do the mounting stuff automatically – daisy Mar 09 '13 at 15:11

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