DUAL BOOT -- 6.10/7.04 Herd 4?

[Jean-Francois Messier]

I had similar booting issues on my laptop with Ubuntu vs Vista and XP.
When I installed Vista and then Ubuntu, everything was fine. But when I
installed XP over Vista, Ubuntu and Grub just disappeared. I read around
for solutions about this, as I know that Ubuntu was still there, as I
used separate partitions. I even managed to boot frmo a grub floppy,
manually enter all parameters and boot into Ubuntu. But I could not use
grub-install to restore grub and get back access to Ubuntu. I installed
a brand new Ubuntu in a spearate partition, which properly overwrote
the boot record. It found also the XP and the other original Ubuntu
6.10. 

Booting from the original Ubuntu, I took the menu.lst file, and put it
in place of the one from the fresh Ubuntu, temporarily. I ran
grub-install frmo there, and Bingo. I now had the original Ubuntu
available as well as the new Windows. I just relabeled "Windows Vista"
to "Winblows and ran the grub-install. The variousinstructions I found
on the net about grub-isntall wiw not seem to work fine. Bt the
temporary install of another Ubuntu on another partition did the trick
for me.

Jean-Francois Messier
Ottawa

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: DUAL BOOT -- 6.10/7.04 Herd 4?
> From: Maurice Murphy <m1625 at rogers.com>
> Date: Thu, February 22, 2007 10:12 am
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> Recently, I tried to set up a dual boot arrangement with my very stable 
> 6.10 and the then new 7.04 Herd 2.  The installation of 7.04 appeared to 
> go OK, allowing me to divide the available disk space, as in a normal 
> dual boot with XP.  Unfortunately, when it came time to reboot, I found 
> that grub only gave me the option of booting 7.04.  I could no longer 
> access my wonderfully stable 6.10. - not a very happy situation, which 
> required me to do a complete re-install of 6.10!  Fortunately, I had 
> backed up almost all my data.
> 
> Does anyone know, _for sure_, whether it is possible to set up a dual 
> boot 6.10/7.04 Herd 4? 
> 
> I really don't want to have to do another re-install 6.10 all over again!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Maurice
> 
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