Ok sorry for making a new thread. It seemed like the thing todo after a reformat/ reinstall. Anyway below is all the details of my plpbt configuration. Now instead of getting partition not found I am getting file not found. I have been attempting to follow https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/plpbt.bin.html#rungrub2 (https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/plpbt.bin.html#rungrub2)
The forum post at https://forum.plop.at/index.php/topic,1456.msg6310.html#msg6310 (https://forum.plop.at/index.php/topic,1456.msg6310.html#msg6310) was also a lot of help. But I do have plpbt.bin in /boot. My /boot is /dev/sda9 What can am I doing wrong with this? I have also attached a picture of my plpbt error. Oh and perhaps it is clear but I have run update-grub2 and out of superstition I also did update-grub.
#exec tail -n +3 $0
menuentry "Plop Boot Manager" {
set root=(hd0,9)
linux16 /boot/plpbt.bin
}
ls /boot
abi-3.16.0-37-generic memtest86+.bin
abi-3.16.0-70-generic memtest86+.elf
config-3.16.0-37-generic memtest86+_multiboot.bin
config-3.16.0-70-generic plpbt.bin
grub System.map-3.16.0-37-generic
initrd.img-3.16.0-37-generic System.map-3.16.0-70-generic
initrd.img-3.16.0-70-generic vmlinuz-3.16.0-37-generic
lost+found vmlinuz-3.16.0-70-generic
# /boot was on /dev/sda9 during installation
It is all so irritatingly simple especially having it explained so many times yet strangely difficult like nothing I have ever tried to do. Regards
Hello,
you are using a partition as boot partition which will be mounted by the os to /boot. When you save plpbt.bin to /boot/plpbt.bin then the file is saved in the root directory of the boot partition. Grub is running before the os. So there are no partitions mounted when grub is running. Grub access the partition directly. That means the full path of plpbt.bin on the partition is /plpbt.bin
You have to change the linux16 line. The correct configuration in the grub config is
linux16 /plpbt.bin
Best regards
Elmar
Perfect. The star field never looked so good!
Thanx, regards.
yippee :)