Hi
Starting new thread as advised.
I am running Linux Lite on sda7 booting from my Debian 8 boot loader on sda MBR
Unfortunately Linux Lite installation would not allow my Debian Grub2 to work, and from the internet I found I was not alone.
This was a shame as I found Linux Lite very good to use but wanted to keep my Debian boot loader.
For a time I switched to "Handy Linux" but still wanted to use "Linux Lite "
My solution though NOT very good allowed me to keep my Debian and other disto's
After generating a grub.cfg with update-grub I edited the Debian grub.cfg with geany.
Finding the first entry for Linux Lite and after the word linux I added these two lines
/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=/dev/sda7 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic
This addition will of course have to be repeated if update-grub is used again in Debian or the kernel is changed
To make this easier I copied the two lines to the heading and made them comments by preceding them with an #
This allows me to boot Linux Lite from my Debian Grub2 Menu
It may not be the correct way of doing things but it worked
Regards
John
After reading information on the net I installed Linux Lite 3.2 putting Grub on the root .
On running update-grub on my original Distro, Linux Lite was in the boot menu and I was able to boot into it.
Its great to be using Linux Lite again, thanks to all for making this possible.
Regards
John
Starting new thread as advised.
I am running Linux Lite on sda7 booting from my Debian 8 boot loader on sda MBR
Unfortunately Linux Lite installation would not allow my Debian Grub2 to work, and from the internet I found I was not alone.
This was a shame as I found Linux Lite very good to use but wanted to keep my Debian boot loader.
For a time I switched to "Handy Linux" but still wanted to use "Linux Lite "
My solution though NOT very good allowed me to keep my Debian and other disto's
After generating a grub.cfg with update-grub I edited the Debian grub.cfg with geany.
Finding the first entry for Linux Lite and after the word linux I added these two lines
/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=/dev/sda7 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-24-generic
This addition will of course have to be repeated if update-grub is used again in Debian or the kernel is changed
To make this easier I copied the two lines to the heading and made them comments by preceding them with an #
This allows me to boot Linux Lite from my Debian Grub2 Menu
It may not be the correct way of doing things but it worked
Regards
John
After reading information on the net I installed Linux Lite 3.2 putting Grub on the root .
On running update-grub on my original Distro, Linux Lite was in the boot menu and I was able to boot into it.
Its great to be using Linux Lite again, thanks to all for making this possible.
Regards
John