Installation impossible

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September 21, 2011 at 11:56 #925

king29

Hello!

I just tried out to install Geexbox 2.0 on my PC and it doesn’t work :(

the live cd work properly , I can use geexbox without installation. But in the boot menu I haven’t an install option , and when I use [tab] to put the install option , it doesn’t work: geexbox start in live cd mode.

I tried to do like said in the documentation of the site but I didn’t use grub legacy but grub2 , so I didn’t find how to put a new entry in my grub2 to use geexbox! (I have copied GEEXBOX to /GEEXBOX , has said in the documentation)

please help me!

P.S. : scuse me for my poor level of english, I’m French

September 21, 2011 at 13:41 #926

ben

That’s because install is no longer supported in GeeXbox 2.0.
Easiest is to use it with LiveUSB.

September 21, 2011 at 13:46 #928

king29

Yes but I don’t know how to add an entry in my Grub2 to boot to the liveUSB (I want to keep my ubuntu working with GEEXBOX)

September 21, 2011 at 16:15 #929

sickofthesea

In a terminal, type “sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/40_custom” and change the text so it looks similar to this below;

#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the ‘exec tail’ line above.
menuentry “GeeXBox 2.0″ {
echo ‘GeeXBox …’
set root=(hd0,4)
linux /GEEXBOX/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 vga=789 quiet splash loglevel=3
echo ‘Loading initial ramdisk …’
initrd /GEEXBOX/initrd
}

My linux root partition is on sda5. Change the values on lines 8 & 9 to reflect the partition of your root partition /. i.e. if your root partition is sda2, then line 8 should read “set root=(hd0,1)” and line 9 ……=/dev/sd2….

Save the file and in the terminal enter “sudo update-grub2″. You MUST do this. You won’t see your new entry listed in the output from this command, however when you reboot it should be in grub2′s list.

Then please let me know whether or not you are able to save persisitent settings, as I can’t – see my post earlier.

Thanks & best regards,

Martin

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