Install ubuntu after windows and android x86

[Christopher Calmes]

I was wondering If it was possible to do this and who marked my last post for abuse!

[gerhard smith]

It should work fine provided each has its own partition. If you lose any of the boots, then boot-repair can fix your boot problems.
https://launchpad.net/boot-repair
I have used boot-repair many times as installing android-x86 after windows and linux loses the linux entries.

[Christopher Calmes]

does that automatically add android and windows to grub?

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[gerhard smith]

For me boot-repair added win7/win8/ubuntu/android-x86 to grub. Unfortunately it also finds all the pre-upgrades of ubuntu and I had to go in and remove them by hand, but at least they were bundled under a sub-menu.

[Christopher Calmes]

so it won't work if I use ubuntu partition shrinker?

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:41 AM, gerhard smith <ger...@wearethevoters.com> wrote:

For me boot-repair added win7/win8/ubuntu/android-x86 to grub. Unfortunately it also finds all the pre-upgrades of ubuntu and I had to go in and remove them by hand, but at least they were bundled under a sub-menu.

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[Greg McGee]

The issue with Ubuntu is that by default, it installs grub2 as a boot loader, and I have yet to have any luck installing Ubuntus grub2 to a partition.

It's not a show stopper if you want to use grub2 as your main bootloader.
Mint14 will install grub2 successfully to a partition, so perhaps it's fixed.

The trick with android-x86 is (currently) it always installs grub to the MBR, or not at all.

What I did was install android-x86 to an sdcard, including installing grub to generate a config./grub dir on the sdcard.
Then reinstalled on the partitionm, skipping grub install.
copy over /grub from the sdcard
Then change menu.lst in /grub on the partition to point at the partition
root (hd0,5) in my case

Then install grub to the partition in grub running off a livecd, IIRC the android-x86 version iso didn't work.
If you have a large enough partition you can have multiple android installs and select between them in grub

Then I simply set up android to chainload in my main grub config.
(I'm running Mageia with grub as bootloader)

[Christopher Calmes]

ok wow well installing to sdcard makes it really slow

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[Greg McGee]

it's only to get the /grub installation to copy over to the partition.
(menu.lst will need a bit of editing, but it's trivial)

[gerhard smith]

Ubuntu does install grub2 and it has worked for me every time with various combinations of Ubuntu, winXp, win2k, win7, win8. It always picked up all the installations.
The problem is android-x86 as it only does grub (old grub) and it does not find Ubuntu partitions. The workaround is simple: install all windows first(because win installs don't pick up other os'es), then ubuntu (all linux installations) and lastly android-x86. If you get this wrong it is not the end of the world as boot-repair will find and set up the missing installations.

 When installing android-x86 DO NOT INSTALL GRUB.
Now to fix the boot.
a. The hard way. You need to know about grub2 and booting and edit the files directly. I will not discuss that here.
b. The easy way.
Now boot from ubuntu live-cd and install boot-repair (sudo apt-get install boot-repair).
Run boot repair with all the default options and it will find all your installations. So far i have never had any troubles with this method.
Reboot and if there are boot options you don't fancy then you can edit your grub2 configuration, or you can just live with what it gives you - it is normally not too bad. It might find some old installations you have forgotten about and they will most likely not boot anyway.

[Christopher Calmes]

ok glad I found out before I screwed up my grub. you don't know how often I have done that. Did it way back in 2009 and did it every 6 months lol. 

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[NicoRuizMza]

YES it's posible!!! I made it and still working with all android and ubuntu versions

Install Windows 1st then Ubuntu and later install Android, but when the setup offers you to install GRUB just say NO

Ok now u can access Windows and Ubuntu only, boot to Ubuntu and follow the steps from this article : http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/how-to-dual-boot-android-x86-and-ubuntu.html

Do the modification respct the android version u installed and then just reboot and now U will be able to boot Android, WIndows, Ubuntu and others OS without problem.

[Christopher Calmes]

ehhhhh! thank you all!

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[Greg McGee]

The method I described will install grub(legacy, which has reasonably human readable config files)  to the android partition, it can be chainloaded by any decent bootloader, even grub2 (on recent versions of Ubuntu, anyway)

If all you have is Ubuntu, maybe Windows and android and you never want to try anything else, Ubuntu is OK as long as grub2 is installed to the MBR of the disc.

I know installing grub2 to a partition works with mint14, but had no luck installing the latest Ubuntu to a partition---result was an unbootable system, every time.

I have 3-4 different distros on various partitions (+ win8+ android), and have no desire to have to HAVE to keep Ubuntu installed to manage the bootloader.

I don't use grub2 for that reason. To date, Ubuntu grub2 needs to be installed in the MBR//take over the machine, and has lousy bootloader management tools unless you trust it all to work automagically, which I have never seen go well long.

I don't run Ubuntu usually, (never now, I use Mint if I need to test using an Ubuntu-based distro) so I do not want to have to use it to manage my bootloader.

If a bootloader//distro won't install to a partition without magic tricks, it gets replaced with something else, usually as soon as I fix the bootloader setup again.