Hi. I just recently started using Ubuntu Mate 16.04 and love it. I have installed it on a multi boot Linux PC. I have 7 different distros on this PC. I recently installed Bohdi Linux 4.0 and it installed the default ugly Ubuntu Grub screen. Could somebody help me to restore the Ubuntu Mate 16.04 Grub screen? Thanks in advance for any help.
I suggest booting into MATE 16.04, reinstalling grub from there and then updating grub.
The terminal commands would typically be something like these:
sudo grub-install /dev/sda - # make sure that this is the correct (bootable) HD! Gparted will show the boot drive.
sudo update-grub # after this, your MATE grub should be restored.
Good luck SleepyD.
Hello @SleepyD
Definately the answer that you have been supplied should fix your problem.
However I would simply like to point out for your own sake (And your computer’s, I guess) that you’d be better to virtualize your distros instead of installing them all onto the same box.
Not only does virtualizing your 8 distros will ensure that nothing messy will happen with GRUB as it did to you, it will also give you the liberty to “recycle” your installations and copy them over on another system so you don’t need to re-reinstall them all again.
Furthermore once a system has been virtualized it can be ran in Linux, windoze and/or mac.
If all of this is new to you then I would suggest into looking at https://www.virtualbox.org/ to get started.
By experience, running more than 3 OSes on the same machine via bootloader is asking for trouble and even 2 is kind of pointless nowadays with the amount of ressources we have.
Cheers,
Thank you for the response mdooley. It worked like a charm.
Thank you for the response DLS. I have Virtual Box setup on my Ubuntu partition where I tried some distros that do not support my system. I prefer booting into a distro versus running them virtually. I know it can cause issues with Grub sometimes. I’ve fixed Grub before with Boot-Repair. Now I know what to do to restore the Grub I like. I don’t mind dealing with issues. That’s how I learn.
When you update grub from the live cd do you also have to specify the boot drive?
grub update sda1
@outlaw sda1 is a partition on a hard drive. Specify a hard drive instead, /dev/sda if that is your boot drive.,
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