need advice with multi boot

[-buzz86-]

hay, at the moment im dual booting windows xp and ubuntu 10.4 on my samsung n130 netbook.

what i would like to do it add backtrack 4 final to a small amout of space (about 10GB) just to try out and do some testing with.

how do i go about adding this to my grub boot loader?

i cant find a menu.lst life to add it to.

im guessing i just use gparted to create a 10gd partition and install it in there but i dont no how to go about adding it to my boot menu.

i haven't been using ubuntu for long so go easy on me.

thanks

[oldfred]

Welcome to the forums.

If you want to keep the Ubuntu version of grub2 as the boot loader, just install backtrack. It should give you an option not to install a boot loader. Then in Ubuntu run

sudo update-grub

If you cannot prevent backtrack from installing its boot loader or miss it just reinstall grub2.

How to restore the Ubuntu/XP/Vista/7 bootloader (Updated for Ubuntu 9.10)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1014708
kansasnoob on grub or grub2 reinstall
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9338226&postcount=41

[dino99]

lucid work with grub2 (grub-pc) so no menu.lst here (grub-legacy)

when a new distro is installed you have to run:

sudo grub-mkconfig
sudo update-grub

to have a uptodated grub menu

mini howto: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9216264&postcount=14

[-buzz86-]

thank you very much for the info. im still at work right now but when i get home ill have a go at installing backtrack.

ill let you know how it goes later. cheers

[-buzz86-]

oh one other thing is i wanted to give my boot screen a background is there any tutorials for that? im amusing its not that hard to do