i'm attempt my first dual boot of 2 linuxes (mandy & kubuntu), see pic, partitions listed on right i've created on mandy my user name: davem, and on kubuntu: dave[ot]i'm no longer a dualboot virgin[/ot]i'll clarify if neccisary
Dual booting Linuxes is easy. I've got Ubuntu and openSUSE shacked up together on my second computer. I installed Ubuntu first, then I installed SUSE. SUSE's installer detected Ubuntu and made a boot loader entry for it automatically.
Ive only dual booted using Grub. Its dead easy to configure the configure file (menu.lst) The LFS book shows how simple the file needs to be. 8.4. Making the LFS System Bootable
well their both working:doh: , updating them now well i installed mandy first, then kubuntu is this the way it should be done (different usernames on 2 KDE installs on 1 HDD, sharing a common /home) don't like the idea of editing menu.lst, but if i've got then i guess i'll have to, i'm also using GRUB (presumably GRUB is easier / better than LILO or is there another better / easier bootloader) thankies :good:
GRUB is probably the best boot loader available. When sharing a common /home partition, if you want to have your files and settings synched between them then you need to have your username's the same.
Good on yer, Dave. I dual-boot Mandy & Ubuntu and everything is fine! The only problem I had initially, was that I had to reinstall Mandy on my first hard drive and it overwrote the bootloader for Ubuntu - Arrrragh!! I could only boot into Mandriva. Couldn't figure a way of trying to get into my Ubuntu install, so reinstalled THAT and all was well. However, I'm not 'au fait' (as they say in France) with fixing bootloaders, so that will be my next learning objective in Linux.
All you would have had to do is get grub on a floppy disk, boot from that and type grub. This would open up grub. Then type in where your Ubuntu install is... (or more to the point which partition the menu.lst is you want to use. ie root (hd0, 1) This would then boot Ubuntu (as the menu.lst would be configured for ubuntu only). Then go to menu.lst on the Ubuntu install and add a line for Mandy. ie Boot from Grub floppy Type "Grub" Type the partition where menu.lst is. "(hd0, 1)" Say which drive grub is to be installed "setup (hd0)" "quit" (you must type this. I totally killed an ext2 partition once because I didnt!) go to menu.lst on the grub install and add a line for mandy.... As long as one of the OS installs has a menu.lst Grub is fine.
well Kubuntu is up to date, guess i'll need the mandy Sticky to update it (i was using mandy, but i can't remember how to update it)[ot]i guess thats why the Stick is there[/ot]thankies all
