How to re-install the GRUB 2 boot-loader on Fedora Core Linux with the command line.

To re-install the bootloader for Fedora Core 19; you must first load into your Linux installation with a chroot. This post will explain this process. https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/re-installing-the-grub2-bootloader-using-a-chroot-with-linux-mint-14/. Then, once you are in the chroot environment, the following commands will re-install GRUB for you. root@neo homer# grub2-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported.root@neo homer# grub2-install /dev/sda Installation … Read more

Updating the grub2 boot-loader menu & adding swap space to your computer.

How to update the GRUB bootloader menu on Linux To update the grub bootloader on your Linux box, this is another way to do this. grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfggrub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg This will update the grub2 bootloader and add any new kernels in /boot. Creating a new swapfile for your Linux system. Firstly we create a … Read more

How to boot an Ubuntu ISO without a thumb drive or a CD. Read more to find out.

I was wanting to try out an older version of Ubuntu on my netbook; but I did not want to write the ISO image to a thumb drive to boot it; therefore I copied the ISO image to a subfolder of my /boot folder; /boot/iso and then I added this section to my /etc/grub.d/40_custom file … Read more

Re-installing the Grand Unified Boot loader (GRUB2) in Linux Mint 13.

I recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my computer, triple-booting with Linux Mint 12 and Linux Mint 13, this overwrote my boot-loader for my Linux Mint 13 installation. Therefore, after booting into my Linux Mint 13 distribution I re-installed the boot-loader using the command-line. Using the grub-install command to re-install the proper boot-loader to the boot … Read more

Setting up the Linux Mint grub menu. How to use a *.png wallpaper to spice up your boot menu.

Setting up the Linux Mint grub menu, set a png file as the background This is my copy of the /etc/grub.d/06_mint_theme file I found on my system, I have uncommented quite a lot of the code and I got it working. I then copied a png format image to my /boot/grub folder and then ran … Read more