Triple boot Windows, Ubuntu, Sabayon

[FuturePilot]

Is this possible? If so how would I do this? I've decided to give Sabayon another chance after the disaster with my laptop But this time I'm going to try it on my PC. With a few issues with Ubuntu that are really starting to annoy me I tried the Sabayon live CD to see if my problems still existed. So far I'm pretty impressed. But I'm not a big fan of KDE. I don't like the fake transparencies. IMO if you can't do true transparencies (i.e Beryl) don't do them at all. And I don't like the huge crowded menus. I really liked the way Ubuntu has everything laid out in a neat order. But I'm willing to give it all a try. So can it be done?

[rsambuca]

Easy. I assume from the sounds of things you already have XP and ubuntu installed? Basically just partition your drive, stick in the Sabayon DVD or CD, and install it onto another partition. Sabayon uses grub, although I can't remember off hand whether it recoginzed ubuntu or not. If it doesn't, just edit your menu.lst to have the choice between XP, ubuntu, or Sabayon at bootup. (I have XP, Vista, ubuntu, ubuntu 64bit, Sabayon all installed, it is actually quite easy)

If you need assistance, just post here.

[solar george]

Yes it can. (in theory)

The ubuntu installer should automatically detect previously installed OSs and set up the boot menu. So install the other two first, then ubuntu

[FuturePilot]

When I tried a dual boot on my laptop with Ubuntu already installed Grub no longer recognized Ubuntu, I only had Sabayon listed. So how do get all the OSes recognized?

[solar george]

If you install ubuntu last it will recognise the other OSs. If you already have ubuntu install and want to add sabayon post back.

[rsambuca]

There are two methods you can use to modify your system: You can edit the menu.lst from your sabayon partition to add the ubuntu info, or you can re-install the ubuntu grub loader (which you may have to add Sabayon to anyways.)

[FuturePilot]

I've already got Ubuntu installed but when I install Sabayon I'll lose Ubuntu from Grub. So how would I edit the list?

[rsambuca]

Since you will be in Sabayon, just enter a terminal as root user. Enter your password, and then edit your menu.lst using the text editor. ie.

kate /boot/grub/menu.lst

You will then see Sabayon's grub listings.

I would then open another terminal, and open up the menu.lst file from your ubuntu partition. Then just copy and paste the ubuntu load info into the Sabayon grub loader.

ie. the part that says: Title.... root... kernel... initrd...

Save and reboot. It will show up in the grub as a choice next bootup.

[RAV TUX]

Originally Posted by FuturePilot I tried the Sabayon live CD to see if my problems still existed. So far I'm pretty impressed. But I'm not a big fan of KDE.

If you don't like KDE Sabayon is perfect for you since the DVD install comes not only with KDE, but also Gnome, XFCE, Fluxbox and E16 by default...easy if you don't like KDE simply don't use it.

[FuturePilot]

Originally Posted by RAV TUX If you don't like KDE Sabayon is perfect for you since the DVD install comes not only with KDE, but also Gnome, XFCE, Fluxbox and E16 by default...easy if you don't like KDE simply don't use it.

Wow! I didn't know that! Thanks. Right now I have the mini version, but I might go get the DVD now