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December 25th, 2009, 07:22 AM
Hello everybody,
I need to use the simple sequence that ubuntu 9.10 use that will works with GRUB - The GNU Grand Unified bootloader that came with Arch Linux. I worry about GRUB-2 upgrade latter if it's not the same. I really don't know.
No need to tell you the h*ll I went through as one boot-loader over-write the next. Arch was my last install, so I let Arch GRUB version be the main boot-loader until I got more free time to do it all over again.
Please don't get off track of my original question above ... but the main problem was; I could not find /boot/Grub/menu.lst no where in ubuntu 9.10 install. That was a trip for me, looking all night long for it. So I said forget it and installed ARCH linux to see if it would pick up the other installs and I'm soooo glad I made it last thing on the list to be installed.
The docs said "you'll find menu.lst in" /boot/Grub/menu.lst and it was there for Arch, un-like ubuntu 9.10 where it could not be found anywhere on it installed partition. I could have missed something but this is what I saw, all night long before going back to my 9-5 boring job that morning.
This is something I would like to understand because ubuntu will end-up being one of my main OS of study, but this has not much to do with the main question I asked above, All I need is the simple sequence that resemble what others LINUX installs use, as below:
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,19)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26=root=/dev/sda20 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
title ubuntu 9.10
root (hd0,16)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz_xxxxx=root=/dev/sda17 xxxx ... Need to know
initrd /boot/kernel_xxxxx.img ... Need to know
title WindowsXP
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader --force +1boot
title FreeBSD
root (hd0,3,a)
kernel /boot/loader
THIS IS THE ORDER OF MY INSTALL..:
It was tricky to make sda2 Primary because Windows being the first to install did not accept it and would not intall. So I gave sda1 extra BYTES and made the Extended Partition right behind it and one more Primary Partition at the end of the disk. So I got the idea to resize Primary-1 with Partition Commander after all Windows were installed. Now I got Primary-3, or is it Primary-2 as it should be called ... I'm not sure but it worked :)
Lets ask that MicroSoft don't walk over that tooooo in a service pack or the next version or that any other OS don't do the same to make thing difficult by design :(
(edit -- correction for a better clue)
sda1 Win-Vista - Primary-1
sda2 BSDI - Primary-2 created after I installed all MS Windows "RESIZING" the extra bytes.
sda3 Now we get the NEW Extended-Partition for MS-Windows AFTER all has been installed.
sda4 FreeBSD - Primary-4
sda5 Win-7 -- 32bit
sda6 Win-7 -- 64bit
sda7 waiting for Win-8
sda8 G
sda9 H
sda10 I
sda11 J
sda12 K
sda13 L
sda14 M
sda15 N
sda16 0 200,000 GB
sda17 Linux-1 Ubuntu 9.10-ext3 25004.84 used 2.46GB
sda18 Linux-2 waiting 20003.89
sda19 Linux-3 waiting 15002.92
sda20 Linux-4 Arch 10001.95 used 814MB
sda21 Linux-5 SWAP 4087.97
sda22 Linux-6 future SWAP growth 67570.18
Thanks in advance
I need to use the simple sequence that ubuntu 9.10 use that will works with GRUB - The GNU Grand Unified bootloader that came with Arch Linux. I worry about GRUB-2 upgrade latter if it's not the same. I really don't know.
No need to tell you the h*ll I went through as one boot-loader over-write the next. Arch was my last install, so I let Arch GRUB version be the main boot-loader until I got more free time to do it all over again.
Please don't get off track of my original question above ... but the main problem was; I could not find /boot/Grub/menu.lst no where in ubuntu 9.10 install. That was a trip for me, looking all night long for it. So I said forget it and installed ARCH linux to see if it would pick up the other installs and I'm soooo glad I made it last thing on the list to be installed.
The docs said "you'll find menu.lst in" /boot/Grub/menu.lst and it was there for Arch, un-like ubuntu 9.10 where it could not be found anywhere on it installed partition. I could have missed something but this is what I saw, all night long before going back to my 9-5 boring job that morning.
This is something I would like to understand because ubuntu will end-up being one of my main OS of study, but this has not much to do with the main question I asked above, All I need is the simple sequence that resemble what others LINUX installs use, as below:
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,19)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26=root=/dev/sda20 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
title ubuntu 9.10
root (hd0,16)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz_xxxxx=root=/dev/sda17 xxxx ... Need to know
initrd /boot/kernel_xxxxx.img ... Need to know
title WindowsXP
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader --force +1boot
title FreeBSD
root (hd0,3,a)
kernel /boot/loader
THIS IS THE ORDER OF MY INSTALL..:
It was tricky to make sda2 Primary because Windows being the first to install did not accept it and would not intall. So I gave sda1 extra BYTES and made the Extended Partition right behind it and one more Primary Partition at the end of the disk. So I got the idea to resize Primary-1 with Partition Commander after all Windows were installed. Now I got Primary-3, or is it Primary-2 as it should be called ... I'm not sure but it worked :)
Lets ask that MicroSoft don't walk over that tooooo in a service pack or the next version or that any other OS don't do the same to make thing difficult by design :(
(edit -- correction for a better clue)
sda1 Win-Vista - Primary-1
sda2 BSDI - Primary-2 created after I installed all MS Windows "RESIZING" the extra bytes.
sda3 Now we get the NEW Extended-Partition for MS-Windows AFTER all has been installed.
sda4 FreeBSD - Primary-4
sda5 Win-7 -- 32bit
sda6 Win-7 -- 64bit
sda7 waiting for Win-8
sda8 G
sda9 H
sda10 I
sda11 J
sda12 K
sda13 L
sda14 M
sda15 N
sda16 0 200,000 GB
sda17 Linux-1 Ubuntu 9.10-ext3 25004.84 used 2.46GB
sda18 Linux-2 waiting 20003.89
sda19 Linux-3 waiting 15002.92
sda20 Linux-4 Arch 10001.95 used 814MB
sda21 Linux-5 SWAP 4087.97
sda22 Linux-6 future SWAP growth 67570.18
Thanks in advance