Re: Triple-boot? -- XP Pro/ubuntu [or kubuntu]/Mandriva
- From: "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:38:35 -0500
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It would appear that on Jan 30, Chuck MATTSEN did say:
> > Well actually what I'd do would be to install the bootloader to floppy...
>
> No floppy.
>
> I'm at work now, but will look at the rest of the information later. Thx.
> (Wordy is a good thing sometimes.)
Hmmmnnn. no floppy. (sigh) I don't remember if you can install grub to a
partitions superblock or not... The last time I did that I only used
lilo, and while I can't remember for sure, I think it broke one of my
older distributions ability to fsck that partition...
Since I've always had floppy drives I don't know if attempting to install
grub to a non-existent /dev/fd0 will yield a /boot/grub/menu.lst file
or not. But I suppose that if you get your existing lilo to boot the
ubuntu installation, You could then, when your ready to let ubuntu run
the boot loader, manually create the /boot/grub/menu.lst file on ubuntu
for use with "grub-install (hd0)" though that would require careful
formatting if you want to use the debian update-grub script to
automagically update the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST section...
There's no need to rush that step, but you do want to stop using
mandriva's lilo before you delete mandriva. I once deleted an old linux
before I remembered that it was the one from which I had last installed
lilo... It took a while to find a working boot floppy for one of the
other distros so that I could recreate a working lilo...
If you want to look at the /boot/grub/menu.lst that ubuntu created when
I installed grub to floppy check out the link below, which, like the
other two in the previous message will stay valid for at least the next
30 days...
:r!date
Tue Jan 31 09:18:24 EST 2006
https://home.comcast.net/~jtwdyp/menu.lst
SeeYa
Joe
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