Mandriva entry in Grub?

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Hi all
Installed Mandriva Free 8 just skipped grub part now there is no grub entry what should be the Mandriva grb input so that I can boot through it I installed it in sda1 .. Also is there a way to update a grub so that it can identify and all the missing entry if present in diff .. partition

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[praka123]

so,u have grub already installed from some distro(ubuntu?).now u want mandriva entry in grub.right?
boot into ubuntu and try "sudo /usr/sbin/update-grub".now open ur ubuntu's /boot/grub/menu.lst and check for mandriva entry be there.if update-grub fails to detect ur mandriva,then in ubuntu,mount ur mandriva / partition in /mnt dir of ubuntu also if u have /boot partition made separate in mandriva,mount /boot partition only in /mnt dir of ubuntu.

open gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst in ubuntu and after ubuntu entries,add as below:

title Mandriva 8
root(hd0,x)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-xxx ro quiet splash
initrd   /boot/initrd-xxx.img

so look at ur /mnt dir of ubuntu and identify the mandriva vmlinuz entry which u want and also initrd.img also(if multiple vmlinuz are there select the one u use also initrd related to it) and add it to ubuntu /boot/grub/menu.lst using gedit save,reboot and look whether mandriva is shown. the root (hd0,x) where x is if u have /dev/sda8 as ur partition of mandriva,then root (hd0,7) is to be added.that is "partition number -1".

BTW,apt-get install grub-splashimages for cool grub background.