On Tue, 13 May 2008, Tony Baechler wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
Daniel Dalton wrote:
- Is the grub configuration that is used on the last installed linux? So if
I install ubuntu last will the /boot/grub/menu.lst file that is used by the
system be there or on the debian partition?
If so why is this and should I do something to only have one grub
configuration through out all my partitions?
I don't use grub but I can say this from practical experience installing
Linux and Windows. The boot manager needs to be installed in the MBR,
regardless of what OS you use or which boot manager. I think you said you
have Windows installed so it probably put its own boot sector in the MBR but
not necessarily so. Also, each bootable Linux partition needs a boot loader
such as lilo or presumably grub. Therefore, my guess would be that all your
Linux partitions need grub installed because grub actually boots the kernel
once the boot manager calls it from the MBR.
Oh so I should keep /boot on both partitions?
Even though I think it calls the ubuntu one.
This is just a suggestion, but I would look at the mbr package. If you run
install-mbr from Debian or another linux partition, it will install its own
MBR code which doesn't need grub or lilo but will call the boot loader for
the partition you specify at boot. In other words, I have my system set as
follows: hda1 is Windows, hda2 is Linux, hda3 is swap and hda4 is an extra
FAT32 drive to exchange files between the two OSes. To boot Windows, I just
turn on the computer and do nothing because it's already the default active
partition. To boot Linux, I press the letter "a" for advanced and the number
2 for the second partition as soon as I hear the second beep but before the
actual boot process starts. The reason for pressing the "a" first is because
How did you get it to beep?
hda2 isn't marked active and Windows and/or the BIOS is limited to only one
active partition. Linux doesn't care if it's active or not but it won't boot
an inactive partition unless you go into advanced mode. From there, either
the standard Windows boot loader takes over or lilo runs, depending on what
OS i'm booting.
Ah ok.
As always, there are several howto documents on multiboot setups. I suggest
you read them, at least two were for grub.
I'll do a little bit of research.
You asked about deleting Ubuntu. I can't help you there but I would just
delete the partition. However, with that many distros installed, I would
probably set aside another small partition for /home. Otherwise you'll have
to backup your /home dir for every distro separately.
Yep, actually I just installed ubuntu for fun so I have to /home: one on
sda3 and one on sda6 so one is ubuntu's and one for debian.
Debian is my main system, but ubuntu is nice to play with.
--
Daniel Dalton
http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
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