Yesterday I installed smxi on three systems.
1. debian sid/icewm/liquorix kernel grub2 is on drive - smxi works without incident
2. debian squeeze/icewm/debian kernel grub2 is on drive - smxi works without incident
3. debian sid/lxde/liquorix kernel no grub (grub is on drive with system in 2 above) - smxi will not run. I get the following error:
I tried but still got the same result.
Thanks for any help.[/code]
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Searching the smxi script file, I found the meaning of this error message. I get the error because I do not have grub installed on this drive(sdb). It is installed on sda. How do I work around this?
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no, you got the message because you do not have /boot/grub/... on your system, it's unrelated to which drive.

smxi can't support other configurations, it's the same exact issue as with lilo only with some other unknowable parameters.

The easy way to use grub is to have one master grub, and then use a chainloader to each system's grub, which is installed to the partition boot sector.

A master grub /boot that is not mounted on the partition cannot work in smxi, nor do I ever see it working.

And smxi uses the data it reads from grub to determine what kernels are installed, i think, so it can compare them to the latest in apt.
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Thank you. I understand.
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I installed grub on /dev/sdb1/ and smxi ran with no errors.

Thank you for your help.
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The only actual issue here was that I forgot that the bad file text would be echoed out in the error 7 message, so I've updated that to now show: boot-grub is not mounted, which is more clear and informative.
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