akhirah
May 10th, 2008, 12:57 AM
Much needed help required for a noobian. Thanks in advance for those who respond.
My setup:
IDE PRIMARY MASTER: 80GB WESTERN DIGITAL
IDE SECONDARY MASTER: DVD WRITER 1
IDE SECONDARY SLAVE: DVD WRITER 2
SATA 1: 250GB HITACHI DESKSTAR
SATA 2: 250GB HITACHI DESKSTAR
SATA II: 200GB SEAGATE BARRACUDA (SET TO IDE IN BIOS)
I initially installed 3 operating systems on the 80GB Western Digital Drive without any hic-cups...grub installed fine and I was able to select and run each operating system.
I decided that I wanted to install all the OSs onto the faster and higher capacity 200GB seagate drive.
I installed XP first and created 4 partitions as follows:
30GB - XP
30GB - VISTA
30GB - UBUNTU
2GB - SWAP
Remaining space I left unallocated.
I installed the OSs in the following order XP, vista then Ubuntu. Upon 92%ish completion of the Ubuntu install it reported error - unable to install GRUB - fatal error! Oh no weep weep!
So I wiped the 80GB, created a 50GB partition and installed ubuntu on that instead, thinking it will create a boot loader including links to XP , vista and ubuntu (on 200GB Seagate). Which it did but none of them work! Except the ubuntu on the 80GB Hard Drive. Here is the output of the menu.lst file>>>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-17-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-17-generic root=UUID=c9132b99-a1bc-41e8-89ba-941b7e68d389 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-17-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-17-generic root=UUID=c9132b99-a1bc-41e8-89ba-941b7e68d389 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/sda6.
title Ubuntu 8.04 (8.04) (on /dev/sda6)
root (hd1,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=/dev/sda6
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
savedefault
boot
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sdb1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd2,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd2)
map (hd2) (hd0)
chainloader +1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
OPTION 1 PREFERENCE:
I would prefer to remove 80 GB Hard Drive and if possible install grub on the 200gb seagate. If not possible then,
OPTION 2:
Edit the above menu.lst to allow active/working links to XP, Vista, Ubuntu (On 80GB) or....
OPTION 3:
You recommendations.
Thanks again in advance
My setup:
IDE PRIMARY MASTER: 80GB WESTERN DIGITAL
IDE SECONDARY MASTER: DVD WRITER 1
IDE SECONDARY SLAVE: DVD WRITER 2
SATA 1: 250GB HITACHI DESKSTAR
SATA 2: 250GB HITACHI DESKSTAR
SATA II: 200GB SEAGATE BARRACUDA (SET TO IDE IN BIOS)
I initially installed 3 operating systems on the 80GB Western Digital Drive without any hic-cups...grub installed fine and I was able to select and run each operating system.
I decided that I wanted to install all the OSs onto the faster and higher capacity 200GB seagate drive.
I installed XP first and created 4 partitions as follows:
30GB - XP
30GB - VISTA
30GB - UBUNTU
2GB - SWAP
Remaining space I left unallocated.
I installed the OSs in the following order XP, vista then Ubuntu. Upon 92%ish completion of the Ubuntu install it reported error - unable to install GRUB - fatal error! Oh no weep weep!
So I wiped the 80GB, created a 50GB partition and installed ubuntu on that instead, thinking it will create a boot loader including links to XP , vista and ubuntu (on 200GB Seagate). Which it did but none of them work! Except the ubuntu on the 80GB Hard Drive. Here is the output of the menu.lst file>>>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-17-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-17-generic root=UUID=c9132b99-a1bc-41e8-89ba-941b7e68d389 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-17-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-17-generic root=UUID=c9132b99-a1bc-41e8-89ba-941b7e68d389 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
title Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# linux installation on /dev/sda6.
title Ubuntu 8.04 (8.04) (on /dev/sda6)
root (hd1,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=/dev/sda6
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
savedefault
boot
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sdb1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd2,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd2)
map (hd2) (hd0)
chainloader +1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
OPTION 1 PREFERENCE:
I would prefer to remove 80 GB Hard Drive and if possible install grub on the 200gb seagate. If not possible then,
OPTION 2:
Edit the above menu.lst to allow active/working links to XP, Vista, Ubuntu (On 80GB) or....
OPTION 3:
You recommendations.
Thanks again in advance