Dual Boot Problem

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 09:53 -0500, Mike Holstein wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:37 AM, mischa falkenburg
> <because_productions at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
>         
>         Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>         > On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 07:28 -0500, mischa falkenburg wrote:
>         >
>         >> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>         >>
>         >>> On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 09:06 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>         >>>
>         >>>
>         >>>> PS:
>         >>>>
>         >>>> For GRUB there should be a line
>         >>>>
>         >>>> timeout 8
>         >>>>
>         >>>> and for GRUB2 there should be the lines
>         >>>>
>         >>>> if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
>         >>>>   set timeout=-1
>         >>>> else
>         >>>>   set timeout=10
>         >>>> fi
>         >>>>
>         >>>> or similar.
>         >>>>
>         >>>> AFAIK the numbers for the timeouts are seconds.
>         >>>>
>         >>>> Hth,
>         >>>>
>         >>>> Ralf
>         >>>>
>         >>>>
>         >>> PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPS, pardon:
>         >>>
>         >>> You might use GRUB2 and you perhaps has got an issue
>         regarding to a
>         >>> recordfail.
>         >>>
>         >>>
>         >>>
>         >>>
>         >>>
>         >> HI Ralf, thanks for your many responses.
>         >>
>         >> As you can see from what I've written Ronan, there may be
>         more going on
>         >> here rather than not seeing anything (initially).
>         >> Did the install of UbuStu 10.04 happen or not?
>         >>
>         >> Thoughts?
>         >>
>         >> Mischa
>         >>
>         >
>         > With a live cd or from the Linux that can be booted copy
>         >
>         > /boot/grub/menu.lst
>         >
>         > or
>         >
>         > /boot/grub/menu.cfg
>         >
>         > to an email to the list. I guess just the menu entries are
>         missing.
>         >
>         > Take a look at all partitions. If there are folders /boot on
>         some
>         > partitions there should be the kernels. For any kernel there
>         has to be
>         > an entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst, for /boot/grub/menu.cfg it
>         can be a
>         > little bit complicated.
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         
>         (copying the info from ...grub isn't "behaving", but just from
>         my
>         looking at .../menu.lst, all that's listed are two different
>         8.04 LTS
>         kernels:
>         
>         2.6.24-28-generic
>         &
>         2.6.24-19-generic
>         
>         Nothing in the file about 10.04...,
>         
>         I also don't see a file for .../menu.cfg , is that supposed to
>         be in the
>         Grub folder?
>         
>         Mischa
>         
>         
>         
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> 
> i think it would have been a good idea to get the older install (8.04)
> up to GRUB2, then install the 10.04 (with GRUB2). i would try reading
> over the GRUB2 wiki page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 ,
> also maybe
> this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows 
> 
> 
> i have used http://gag.sourceforge.net/ in the past, you could try it
> or another 3rd party bootloader and see if you can find your OS's...
> good luck

Hm? I guess we could help him with GRUB too, anyway, GRUB2 isn't that
bad for such a situation.

After installing GRUB2 it's always possible to
run /usr/sbin/update-grub, which will execute grub-mkconfig, hence a
menu list with every possible kernel will be generated, if wanted or
unwanted ;). It's still possible that some entries are bad, but at least
everything is added.

Maybe a good idea to switch to GRUB2, because it's the default
bootloader for newer Ubuntu.

- Ralf