GRUB (WAS: evince not installable.)

[Tony Arnold]

Vince,

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 01:32 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > I currently have three operating systems on a single disk! Windows, and
> > two copies of Hoary.
> 
> Please tell me how you installed the second Hoary next to the first
> one... what is one supposed to do ? I assume you re-use the /home
> partition of the first Hoary. but what about the more trick
> stuff.... / ... /boot....  /usr ...  tell me...

OK, I started out with Windows and Warty using grub as the boot loaded
in the MBR of the disk.

Warty had a root partition, a /home and a swap. I also had some
unallocated space on the disk (what does one do with 160 gigabytes?).

Do I installed hoary (from the RC version I found on a CD on the front
of some linux magazine) and manually edited the partitions. Told it to
create new parition for / and pointed /home at the existing home
partition.

The install overwrote the MBR with a new hoary boot loaded. It certainly
found Windows and I think it found the existing Warty kernels too.

However, as Warty was my 'production' system, I really wanted grub to
use menu.lst etc from the warty partition, so I booted warty, mounted
the hoary partition and cut and pasted the relevant hoary lines from the
hoary menu.lst into the warty menu.lst and then ran 'install
-grub /dev/hda' Which put the Warty menu.lst back in action.

What I should have done was to install grub in the root partition of the
second hoary and changing it from the warty grub. That way grub updates
on either system would still work. Fortunately, the final release of
Hoary came along and I update warty to it. The second hoary is still
there and in the boot menu, but I've not run it since the hoary release.

I hope this makes sense!

Regards,
Tony.
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