rmcellig wrote
I rebooted from the USB 16GB stick and from the grub menu was able to boot successfully into Xubuntu, Crunchbang and Lubuntu. These distros each have their own partition. on the internal HD in the laptop. Manjaro is the only one that does not boot properly.
So Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (sda1) boots ok too?
That would then indicate that the initrd line is not a must.
Still, can you find Manjaro's intrd [.img or.gz?] ?
see my previous post
So where is your intrd [.img or.gz?], is it in sda4/boot perhaps?
About the suggestion to use sudo update-grub:
Yes, that could possibly do it.
It assumes, that with your
laptop you use Grub as the boot manager.
From your initial post
I installed Manjaro on my PC to try it out. It wiped out the GRUB menu I had created with Grub4DOS. All of my Puppy entries are gone. When I redid the GRUB menu using Grub4Dos, Manjaro would not load. errors were coming up on system start up.
I assume:
- that you initially used Grub4Dos [not Grub] as the laptop's boot manager.
- installing Manjaro then installed Grub by default
- you were then presented with the Grub interface [not the Grub4Dos] at boot. It did not show your Puppy entries.
- you then ran Grub4Dos again, trying to get Manjaro included in the [Grub4Dos] menu.lst
- you are now presented with the Grub4Dos interface at boot. It does now shows Manjaro, but it fails to load.
Now, since Manjaro does not load and since Grub4Dos is the boot manager, what is the point of doing the update-grub?
You cannot do it from Manjaro [it does not load].
You could perhaps try to do it from one of your other installed systems [the menu.lst from the flash drive shows Ubuntu 12.10 (sda6)].
However I think that it may not work. Running Grub4Dos alters the MBR [depends on the chosen option when you do it].
It may be easier to stick with Grub4Dos.
It's menu.lst can easily be edited.
With Grub2 it is more complicated [though update-grub is easy too, when it can be used and when it works as expected]
So, where on your laptop is your Grub4Dos menu.lst?
Can you show that list please.
[you have shown the one from the flash drive in the previous post]