kufischer
October 26th, 2011, 01:44 PM
Hi,
I updated to ubuntu 11.10 shortly after it came out. It seems to be a nice version and the developers did a great job because almost everything that I had before did work again. Ok, have to say that on one of my destops the upgrade from 11.04 failed miserably (after the second reboot the ethernet card was gone which worked fine during the installation process and even after the first reboot). Anyway never mind ...
The reason for this post is an anoying "feature" of 11.10. I have a triple-boot desktop with Windows, 11.10 and 10.04 LTS installed on the disk. 11.10 should be the primary system and I installed it last and hoped that grub would see the other two systems and would include them into the boot menu. Worked fine with Windows but failed with 10.04 LTS. It is a bit astoninishing that Linux does not like itself in this manner! When I do an update-grub I get a message:
Found MS-DOS 5.x/6.x/Win3.1 on /dev/sda6
Well, /dev/sda6 is actually the partition on which 10.04 LTS is installed and I have no clue why the default grub that comes with 11.10 recognizes it as MS-DOS.
Ok, yes, I found a wor around and installed the 10.04 LTS grub which recognizes 11.10 properly and allows to boot both versions of Linux. However, with the down side for now that 10.04 LTS is the default system the machine would boot into and this is not really what I wanted to have.
Is there anybody aware of this problem and is a solution somewhere in sight?
Thanks for listening and keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Klaus
PS: I am talking about a 64 bit installation. Do not know the behaviour of a 32 bit installation.
I updated to ubuntu 11.10 shortly after it came out. It seems to be a nice version and the developers did a great job because almost everything that I had before did work again. Ok, have to say that on one of my destops the upgrade from 11.04 failed miserably (after the second reboot the ethernet card was gone which worked fine during the installation process and even after the first reboot). Anyway never mind ...
The reason for this post is an anoying "feature" of 11.10. I have a triple-boot desktop with Windows, 11.10 and 10.04 LTS installed on the disk. 11.10 should be the primary system and I installed it last and hoped that grub would see the other two systems and would include them into the boot menu. Worked fine with Windows but failed with 10.04 LTS. It is a bit astoninishing that Linux does not like itself in this manner! When I do an update-grub I get a message:
Found MS-DOS 5.x/6.x/Win3.1 on /dev/sda6
Well, /dev/sda6 is actually the partition on which 10.04 LTS is installed and I have no clue why the default grub that comes with 11.10 recognizes it as MS-DOS.
Ok, yes, I found a wor around and installed the 10.04 LTS grub which recognizes 11.10 properly and allows to boot both versions of Linux. However, with the down side for now that 10.04 LTS is the default system the machine would boot into and this is not really what I wanted to have.
Is there anybody aware of this problem and is a solution somewhere in sight?
Thanks for listening and keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Klaus
PS: I am talking about a 64 bit installation. Do not know the behaviour of a 32 bit installation.