Triple boot:XP,ubuntu&FC5 grub failed

Gayal gayal.rupasinghe at gmail.com
Wed Aug 30 15:57:42 UTC 2006


sorry...i m having the GNU GRUB version 0.97 which came with the FC5. and i
wanted to keep that coz its better than the ubuntu GRUB considering the
graphical environment.
And i cant press 'c' coz theres no such command in FC5 grub :)

On 8/30/06, Clive Menzies <clive at clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On (30/08/06 21:08), Gayal wrote:
> > I was using Win XP with FC5 and wanted to install Ubuntu as well.
> >
> > So i deleted the FC5 partition (just for the fun of doing it) and
> installed
> > ubuntu straight from the live cd V6.10.
> > And my laptop dual booted perfectly with XP.
> > After that i installed FC5 and during the creation of boot loader i
> added XP
> > and Ubutu as well from there respective partitions.
> >
> > But then triple boot failed.
> > This is the message i get when selected ubuntu from Fedora Core 5 Grub
> Menu
> > ---------------------------------
>
> Can you post the grub/menu.lst from the FC5 system?
>
> Alternatively, press 'c' at the grub menu and boot into Ubuntu manually
> see:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Overview.html#Overview
>
> and once booted into ubuntu do:
>
> # grub-install /dev/hda(or whatever your disk is)
>
> # update-grub
>
> That should find all three systems
>
> Regards
>
> Clive
>
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