Meson
July 25th, 2010, 12:28 AM
My existing setup:
/dev/sda1 boot
/dev/sda2 win7
/dev/sda3 recovery
/dev/sda5 swap
/dev/sda6 <to be: ubuntu (luks)>
/dev/sda7 arch (luks)
My boot partition and MBR are already setup, I can boot to win7, recovery, and arch just fine. I will be using the Ubuntu 10.04 Alternate installer. I do not want the alternate installer to disrupt my existing MBR or boot partition.
1) Should I setup /dev/sda1 as /boot during installation? I don't want anything overwritten in there.
2) Where should I tell the installer to install grub? /dev/null?
The only thing I want Ubuntu to be able to use /boot for is to put its kernel image, vmlinuz, and system map (if necessary). It shouldn't be touching /boot/grub.
Thanks!
/dev/sda1 boot
/dev/sda2 win7
/dev/sda3 recovery
/dev/sda5 swap
/dev/sda6 <to be: ubuntu (luks)>
/dev/sda7 arch (luks)
My boot partition and MBR are already setup, I can boot to win7, recovery, and arch just fine. I will be using the Ubuntu 10.04 Alternate installer. I do not want the alternate installer to disrupt my existing MBR or boot partition.
1) Should I setup /dev/sda1 as /boot during installation? I don't want anything overwritten in there.
2) Where should I tell the installer to install grub? /dev/null?
The only thing I want Ubuntu to be able to use /boot for is to put its kernel image, vmlinuz, and system map (if necessary). It shouldn't be touching /boot/grub.
Thanks!