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I had Linux Mint as the only OS on my computer. I then replaced that with PCLinuxOS, although in the Grub Mint is still shown but cannot be loaded anymore.
Today I installed Solus. During the installation procedure it asked if \I wanted to install Solus next to Mint or replace it, PCLOS was not mentioned. I decided to install Solus next to Mint because I wanted to avoid accidentally erasing PCLOS if Solus 'mistook' PCLOS for Mint.
The installation went fine, but when I restarted only PCLOS and Mint are shown in the Grub, even though Solus is there (11 Gb). I have attached a screenshot of GParted, and Solus is the highlighted partition. The one above it, p1, is PCLOS.The Grub menu show the various Mint kernels as being in p1.
Updating Grub shows this:
update-grub
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /boot/grub2/themes/pclinuxos/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.13-pclos1
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-5.15.13-pclos1.img
Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entries.
Found Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia (19.3) on /dev/nvme0n1p1
Found Solus (4.3) on /dev/nvme0n1p3
done
But a restart still shows the same Grub menu as before, without Solus.
Oddly, Solus is not shown in boot, and neither is Mint:
[root@localhost peter]# cd /boot
[root@localhost boot]# ls
EFI/ config@ initrd-5.15.13-pclos1.img
System.map@ config-5.15.13-pclos1 initrd.img@
System.map-5.15.13-pclos1 gfxmenu* vmlinuz@
boot.backup.sda grub2/
My questions:
- how can I make Solus show up in the Grub?
- how can I delete Mint from the Grub?