Using fallback initramfs grub entry to boot an install
by Nishtya from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6JQ55)
My latest addition (on sdb1 - a removable ssd) was Manjaro which I have to keep playing with on the side, I like it. Install went fine. Booted into my PCLOS install, update grub no errors. Then I fixed the bios boot sequence to put Mint back on top and ran an update-grub last. No errors.
Manjaro boots fine from F12 boot sequence. It boots fine from PCLOS grub menu. But chosen from Mint grub menu it would hard freeze up before getting to Manjaro splash. I found if I chose advanced option of fallback initramfs it booted fine. I compared the grub.cfg on all of them and saw that both Manjaro and PCLOS appended the paramaters(?) of the main Manjaro entry with the string appended thusly Code:initrd /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-6.6-x86_64.imgI did some googling and found out it is to load all the drivers needed or not. I don't necessarily need to fix this as I simply choose the fallback when booting it from Mint's menu but want to understand why I have to boot it that way and why os-prober did it that way in PCLOS but not in Mint. Assuming its same version of both Grub2 and os-prober.
Can anyone tell me why it has to be booted that way?
Manjaro boots fine from F12 boot sequence. It boots fine from PCLOS grub menu. But chosen from Mint grub menu it would hard freeze up before getting to Manjaro splash. I found if I chose advanced option of fallback initramfs it booted fine. I compared the grub.cfg on all of them and saw that both Manjaro and PCLOS appended the paramaters(?) of the main Manjaro entry with the string appended thusly Code:initrd /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-6.6-x86_64.imgI did some googling and found out it is to load all the drivers needed or not. I don't necessarily need to fix this as I simply choose the fallback when booting it from Mint's menu but want to understand why I have to boot it that way and why os-prober did it that way in PCLOS but not in Mint. Assuming its same version of both Grub2 and os-prober.
Can anyone tell me why it has to be booted that way?