Lull The Conqueror
February 9th, 2009, 03:51 AM
I've searched for other posts about getting Ubuntu 8.10 to properly dual-boot with Ubuntu Studio 8.10, but none of them seem to be having my problem, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.
As the thread title implies, I'm trying to get "regular" 8.10 to dual-boot with Studio 8.10; actually, it would be a triple-boot, as I also have a Windows partition, but that's on a different drive and I highly doubt it has anything to do with this in the first place.
The first problem is that while the Ubuntu Studio installer says it reinstalls GRUB to the MBR, apparently it's still using the menu.lst file from my other Ubuntu install. No problem, I just get in and edit menu.lst to point to the partition where Studio is installed, right? Trying that gives me one of two problems:
If I mount the Studio partition and copy/paste its entry from its own menu.lst file into the one GRUB is reading, it shows up on the menu, but when I try to enter it I get the loader screen for a couple of seconds, then several devices fail to mount, I get "target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init" and "try passing init= bootarg" along with a host of other error messages, and I get a command prompt from which I don't know how to do anything.
Things are simpler if I write my own entry, with root (hd1,2) - this being the partition on which Studio is installed - makeactive, and chainloader +1. Then I just get something like "Error 13: No valid executable on device" or somesuch, and I have to reboot. I guess I should be transcribing the exact error messages it gives me, but I get frustrated easily, and I've already deleted my Studio partition.
Any suggestions for doing an install that actually works? I suppose I could just reformat and install it on my main Ubuntu partition (all my important files are on another partition, so it wouldn't be a big deal), but I like the idea of being able to boot into either, depending on what I want to do.
As the thread title implies, I'm trying to get "regular" 8.10 to dual-boot with Studio 8.10; actually, it would be a triple-boot, as I also have a Windows partition, but that's on a different drive and I highly doubt it has anything to do with this in the first place.
The first problem is that while the Ubuntu Studio installer says it reinstalls GRUB to the MBR, apparently it's still using the menu.lst file from my other Ubuntu install. No problem, I just get in and edit menu.lst to point to the partition where Studio is installed, right? Trying that gives me one of two problems:
If I mount the Studio partition and copy/paste its entry from its own menu.lst file into the one GRUB is reading, it shows up on the menu, but when I try to enter it I get the loader screen for a couple of seconds, then several devices fail to mount, I get "target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init" and "try passing init= bootarg" along with a host of other error messages, and I get a command prompt from which I don't know how to do anything.
Things are simpler if I write my own entry, with root (hd1,2) - this being the partition on which Studio is installed - makeactive, and chainloader +1. Then I just get something like "Error 13: No valid executable on device" or somesuch, and I have to reboot. I guess I should be transcribing the exact error messages it gives me, but I get frustrated easily, and I've already deleted my Studio partition.
Any suggestions for doing an install that actually works? I suppose I could just reformat and install it on my main Ubuntu partition (all my important files are on another partition, so it wouldn't be a big deal), but I like the idea of being able to boot into either, depending on what I want to do.