adix81
January 9th, 2009, 12:57 PM
Hi - i was if anyone could help.
i'm trying to setup a seperate install of ubuntu for a testbed without vmware. basically i have it partitioned like this atm.
/boot - sda5 - ext2
/ (stable system) sda6 - ext3
/home (stable system) - sda7 -ext3
/swap - sda8
/ (testbed) - sda9 xt3
my first attempt worked but didn't seem right - installed ubuntu to the testbed partition everything went under root i.e /boot /home etc.. shared the swap.
I edited my stable system menu.lst on sperate /boot (sda5) partition to include testbed build. It worked but brought up another grub menu - i assume from /boot (sda9) on testbed partition, this was a little annoying as i had two menus to choose from.
i then tried a second install this time telling the testbed to use /boot (sda5) partition as its boot partition.
i.e. both stable and testbed use sda5 as /boot
this over wrote the original grub and i couldn't boot the my stable system. I've restored it now and can boot to my stable system. however cannot boot to my testbed.
i put this into menu.lst
title testbed
root (hd0,8 )
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
quiet
boot
Is what i'm trying to do possible?
thanks in advance
i'm trying to setup a seperate install of ubuntu for a testbed without vmware. basically i have it partitioned like this atm.
/boot - sda5 - ext2
/ (stable system) sda6 - ext3
/home (stable system) - sda7 -ext3
/swap - sda8
/ (testbed) - sda9 xt3
my first attempt worked but didn't seem right - installed ubuntu to the testbed partition everything went under root i.e /boot /home etc.. shared the swap.
I edited my stable system menu.lst on sperate /boot (sda5) partition to include testbed build. It worked but brought up another grub menu - i assume from /boot (sda9) on testbed partition, this was a little annoying as i had two menus to choose from.
i then tried a second install this time telling the testbed to use /boot (sda5) partition as its boot partition.
i.e. both stable and testbed use sda5 as /boot
this over wrote the original grub and i couldn't boot the my stable system. I've restored it now and can boot to my stable system. however cannot boot to my testbed.
i put this into menu.lst
title testbed
root (hd0,8 )
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
quiet
boot
Is what i'm trying to do possible?
thanks in advance