kliq
May 25th, 2012, 02:56 PM
Hello.
At work I use Mandriva 2008 {can't change that now because there is paid-for software installed in it that can not be transferred to anywhere else}.
From next April the UK Inland Revenue require us to run their software and Ubuntu is [one of two of] their designated choices of Linux.
So I installed Ubuntu which works fine, BUT ..........
then when I selected Mandriva at the Boot Screen ..........
nothing booted up.
It turns out that Mandriva requires to be booted up from whatever it put in the first 63 sectors of the hard drive.
VERY fortunately, for entirely unrelated reasons, I had backed-up those sectors last week and so I have been able to get Mandriva working again.
So, two points:
1) To prevent any surviving commercial users of Mandriva getting sacked and then commiting suicide when they too eventually do an alongside-install of Ubuntu and have no boot sector back-ups to fall back on, can the development team please at LEAST add-in a routine to back-up the first 63 sectors of the hard drive so that the unfortunate person has some hope of restoring their original system.
2) Can anyone please tell me how to modify the Mandriva menu.lst file (below), so that when I select Ubuntu from the Boot-Menu it will start Ubuntu; there is only one hard drive and it has three partitions: Ubuntu on hda3, Mandriva on hda2 and something unmentionable on hda1.
timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0
title linux
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hda2 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda2
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
title failsafe
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=/dev/hda2 failsafe
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
title windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Thank you
At work I use Mandriva 2008 {can't change that now because there is paid-for software installed in it that can not be transferred to anywhere else}.
From next April the UK Inland Revenue require us to run their software and Ubuntu is [one of two of] their designated choices of Linux.
So I installed Ubuntu which works fine, BUT ..........
then when I selected Mandriva at the Boot Screen ..........
nothing booted up.
It turns out that Mandriva requires to be booted up from whatever it put in the first 63 sectors of the hard drive.
VERY fortunately, for entirely unrelated reasons, I had backed-up those sectors last week and so I have been able to get Mandriva working again.
So, two points:
1) To prevent any surviving commercial users of Mandriva getting sacked and then commiting suicide when they too eventually do an alongside-install of Ubuntu and have no boot sector back-ups to fall back on, can the development team please at LEAST add-in a routine to back-up the first 63 sectors of the hard drive so that the unfortunate person has some hope of restoring their original system.
2) Can anyone please tell me how to modify the Mandriva menu.lst file (below), so that when I select Ubuntu from the Boot-Menu it will start Ubuntu; there is only one hard drive and it has three partitions: Ubuntu on hda3, Mandriva on hda2 and something unmentionable on hda1.
timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0
title linux
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hda2 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda2
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
title failsafe
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=/dev/hda2 failsafe
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img
title windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Thank you