Sabayon 10 [Solved]

[msdobrescu]

Dual booting with Windows 7.

When I boot Sabayon it gives, 3 times:
error file not found

...but I do not get the Hit any key to continue nor does linux ever boot.

Using EasyBCD in windows 7.

So how do I get the grub to re-install while using EasyBCD in Windows 7?

If I undersood well, you need to restore grub. Use the live Sabayon DVD. You could go to the first option, by starting KDE or Gnome (I use K), then you have a desktop with three icons. The one that start installation (a CD) will provide you the grub restoration. Or you could decide to choose the Sabayon installation option from the live DVD.
You start pretending you install the System, choose language and keyboard, then check the disk with the broken bootloader you want to restore. Next, it should ask you wether you want to perform a fresh install, or a bootloader restore. You choose to restore grub, then it should detect where it was. If it finds it, choose the third option (the lowest) - usually the first is disabled, the second doesn't change anything - it's in case you have a third party bootloader - and it's checked by default, so the third will perform the grub restore. Check if it detects the right partition, and start the restoration. Then, reboot.

In my case worked fine.

Hope it helps, good luck.

[B3rtm3n]

I still had issues with Grub not showing the other installed OS.

Code: Select all

grub2-mkconfig

followed by:

Code: Select all

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

fixed the issue for me.

I also did not like the time out being to short, doing:

Code: Select all

nano /etc/default/grub

will enable you to edit the time out, followed by:

Code: Select all

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Also I liked to edit the names of the OS mentioned in Grub, however grub.cfg states clearly DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
I found no other option than to edit the names in this file and it worked.

Code: Select all

nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg