I wonder about this fact.
Linux Mint is known for to have a upgrade that find frugal install of puppyinstalled Linux Mint on another partition of the same external HD.
seen as an odd thing and makes it invisible? It most likely set timing
so that only linux mint is seen and not any other option. I am unsure.
But people have reported on it all over the place. I have no link though
So you have to find ways to avoid this to happen to you next time LM
decide to update the grub2 due to some security upgrade that goes on
in the background without even telling you. So you can restore the puppy
entry later
And how big space do you have on that partition that you have the frugal
puppy on? if you rename boot to the specific version of puppy like this
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menuentry "PUPPY FRUGAL (on /dev/sdb5)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sdb,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 7adfb900-d535-cd01-30ce-b800d535cd01
linux /wary/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb5
initrd /wary/initrd.gz root=/dev/sdb5
}
without having to use a new partition. You only have to rename the subdir
to wary and next subdir to lupu and next to slacko
Edit.
Oops forgot to tell you how important it is to have this code in both
custom_40 and in grub.conf because if you only have it in grub.conf
then it get deleted when it do the Linux Mint update of grub2 next time
automatically due to inner scripts of LM. LM take what is in custom_40 and
then rewrite the grub.conf
Much more practical then having a general name like boot.
Or is grub2 that peculiar that it only accept the name boot ??????
That would be odd indeed. But who knows Do you dare to test?