Re: Grub 2 in Jaunty/Karmic can break double boot configuration

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Goh Lip <g.lip@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:

Tried to install Karmic at sda1 (ext4-primary) but there was another
Ubuntu instance at sda9 (ext3-secondary). Since ext4 and grub legacy
don't get well together, in fact they hate each other, and install
aborted before rebooting, leaving out grub2, Karmic ext4 became
"invisible" to grub legacy till I managed to install grub2 on Jaunty,
after what they all lived happily forever, etc.


You can still boot Karmic, (ext4, grub2) using grub legacy using
chainloading.

root (hd0,8)
chainloader +1
boot


So I guess the safest way to place Karmic together with a previous
release is first, update to grub2 and them install Karmic. And of
course, if you are not as dumb as me, read thoroughly
http://grub.enbug.org/Manual *before*.

But still didn't figure how I managed to break two Karmic installs in a row.


But, yes, I think it's better to change all instances to grub2.

Regards,
Goh Lip

Goh,

Thanks for your notes.

As reported, my Karmic installs went berserk and there was no grub2
installed. So I had to install grub2 on jaunty to get things working.

Everything seems fine now, but I can't reproduce the problem because I
do not have grub legacy installed anymore.

Lucio

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