UBUNTU 9'10 AVAILABLE @ T.I.C.
Jean-Philippe Monteiro
The new Ubuntu, 9.10 "Karmic Koala" has landed at Tropical Ice Cube
You know the drill: Text 012 825 645 to get yours for free, and
THEN, head to the PPLUG to give assistance to newcomers!
This is important. A lot of people have been asking for support; let us provide as much as we can!
Jean-Philippe "tropicalicecube" Monteiro
http://www.tropicalicecube.net
012 825 645
Chantra
online update and complete installation.
Now It's work well for me.
Also completely download ubuntu 9.10 .iso file and install in my
desktop. My desktop already has Windows 7 and XP. After install ubuntu
I can only login to ubuntu and Windows 7, but lost windows XP boot.
After repair then I can boot in to Windows XP but can boot to ubuntu
and windows 7.
So how should i do to have dual boot that I can boot into unbuntu,
windows 7 and windows XP.
I have 2 hard disk in this desktop PC.
Any Help?
Chantra
On Oct 29, 2:11 pm, Jean-Philippe Monteiro <j...@tropicalicecube.net>
wrote:
Jean-Philippe 'Tropical Ice Cube' Monteiro
> I just update my laptop from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. It took 10 hours for
> online update and complete installation.
> Now It's work well for me.
>
> Also completely download ubuntu 9.10 .iso file and install in my
> desktop. My desktop already has Windows 7 and XP. After install ubuntu
> I can only login to ubuntu and Windows 7, but lost windows XP boot.
>
> After repair then I can boot in to Windows XP but can boot to ubuntu
> and windows 7.
>
> So how should i do to have dual boot that I can boot into unbuntu,
> windows 7 and windows XP.
>
> I have 2 hard disk in this desktop PC.
>
> Any Help?
>
> Chantra
Hy Chantra,
Where are you now with all this?
-What boots and what doesn't?
-Do you have several partitions on the 2 drives?
-What is installed where?
[ie: xp on 1rst partition first disk, ubuntu on second and vista on all second disk]
-In what order did you install them?
-did you use the 'repair' feature of the install disk of M$?
Cheers
Jean-Philippe
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The unsaid part of what you're thinking.
Makara
To solve the problem with boot multi os you have to be clear about partition. Just idea for you to think you have to draw out you hard disk partition. Example:
hda - MBA (GRUB? << learn how to configure grub to point to the correct OS )
-hda1 (XP)
-hda2 (Ubuntu)
-hda3 (Win 7)
-Ext 4
-hda 5 (Logical Partition) if i'm not wrong about linux partition
or
hdb
-hda1 (XP)
After u draw out all of the partition I think you can solve the problem.
The person who loves others will also be loved.
Don Robertson
boot off that, you should be able to mount the Ubuntu partition. This
will (probably*) have a boot directory.
eg, if you mount the Ubuntu partition on /mnt/ubuntu, there will be a
/mnt/ubuntu/boot directory. (could be /media/ubuntu these days)
In the boot directory, there should be a file grub/menu.lst. Take a look
at this.
eg cat /mnt/ubuntu/boot/grub/menu.lst
If you get something like:
# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
# grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
# grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
# and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.
## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from
0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default
entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default 0
and so on until you get to:
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic
uuid b1bbea77-f2e6-46d1-b495-250e2d935260
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
root=UUID=b1bbea77-f2e6-46d1-b495-250e2d935260 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)
uuid b1bbea77-f2e6-46d1-b495-250e2d935260
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
root=UUID=b1bbea77-f2e6-46d1-b495-250e2d935260 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
There should be a couple of Windows boot definitions as well - my XP one is:
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
Check this - if it looks Okay, all you will need to do is reinstall the
bootloader.
grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ubuntu/boot/grub /dev/hd0
* Depending on how you set it up - I think a default Ubuntu install puts
the boot directory on the main partition, but it could have a small
partition all to itself.
BTW - probably a good idea to check the commands - it may be
grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ubuntu/boot /dev/hd0
and /dev/hd0 should be the first disk - if you have a SATA, it would be
/dev/sda
don
Frederic Muller
grub-update utility which is supposed to discover partitions, there is
also a community guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2
Hope that helps.
Fred
Don Robertson
fresh installation but not when upgrading:
"GRUB 2 will be installed by default on NEW installations of Karmic. If
you have upgraded from Jaunty 9.04 to Karmic 9.10 you can follow the
install instructions for Jaunty 9.04 below. "
from the page mentioned below.
Frederic Muller wrote:
> Karmic uses grub2 now and menu.lst is deprecated. Grub2 has a
> grub-update utility which is supposed to discover partitions, there is
> also a community guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Fred
>
Hmmm - grub is working fine on my system, and I don't need any of the
features of grub2. I can live without the GUI. Should I upgrade?
"Grub 2 is currently at version 1.96 so users still have time to
contribute to its development."
So it is not a final release? Guess I *have* to upgrade. Release
versions are for wimps ;-)
don