I had not noticed that a Mageia 4 GRUB2 update in my daughter's desktop had erased the entry for PicarOS.
When Eimi mentioned PicarOS yesterday, I remembered I had not seen the entry in quite a while, so I tried to fix the problem.
Oddly, neither GRUB customizer nor the Mageia GRUB2 installer could fix the problem.
I thus tried the GRUB2 tool that is included in KDE. Fortunately, in a matter of three clicks, KDE reinstalled the PicarOS GRUB2 to the distro's partition. After that, I ran GRUB customizer and it added the missing entry.
I cannot describe Eimi's happiness when the computer booted to PicarOS once again. She played a lot with GCompris and drew many pictures.
PicarOS is a child's magnet without any doubt. The comfort with which my little daughter uses the computer when booted to that OS is truly notorious...
A blog to compile what I have learned (and what I am learning) about Mandriva (and GNU/Linux in general) since 2009, when I migrated. Current distros I'm using: OpenMandriva Lx ROME 5.0, Mageia 9, MX 19, Manjaro 23.1, and Elive 3.
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Interesting...I always add it manually. BTW, obsoleteman (a Pisi developer) gave me this method:
ResponderEliminarOn Konsole, as root, run os-prober command. If it does not see PicarOS, then go to pan B (add it manually) :P