[ubuntu-in] OT - Multiple Booting of GNU/LInux OS's

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi Onkar,

Thanks will try your suggestions.

ram

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can see which partition on each disk is marked as bootable from
> the fdisk outout i.e. the one with '*'.
>
> 1. When you say (hd0,1) it means 1st partition on 0th hard disk. So in
> your case you will have to specify (hd1,1).
> 2. You can see that root partition of your installation is specified
> with UUID. UUID is a unique identifier for every hard disk partition
> in your system. I am not sure if partitions on a USB disk will have
> same UUID everytime you boot. But if it is the case then you can boot
> into Ubuntu and find UUID for all partitions with command 'ls -l
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/'.
> 3. It is possible to dynamically specify kernel, initrd, and root in
> grub instead of trial and error on menu.lst. When you see grub menu of
> Ubuntu, press 'c' key. It will give you a command prompt. You can then
> give commands root, kernel and initrd. After that give command 'boot'.
> Ifthe parameter you have provided are correct it will boot in
> Mandriva. If now you can reboot machine by Ctrl + Alt + Del and try
> again. This way you won't have to boot in Ubuntu everytime. Once you
> have found correct values add those to your menu.lst
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Onkar
>
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