Gutsy on one partion/Hardy on another

Grégoire . gribouille09 at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 30 08:38:05 UTC 2008


Hello,

The best is to have grub at  the first place of your hard drive, that is the mbr !
Then you can configure grub from the last installation of ubuntu you 've done, by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst (tip the command lline  sudo gedit /boot/menu.lst )

good luck
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> Subject: Re: Gutsy on one partion/Hardy on another
> From: i-ubux at synass.net
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:01:08 +0800
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 21:36 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> What is the easiest way to install Hardy on a separate partion?
> 
> I do have a specific question regarding /boot & GRUB in such a setup:
> 
> Do I place GRUB in MBR ...
> ... or better int the respective partition ???
> 
> Finally the notebook will have 4 OS selectable:
> 
> prim / NTFS - sys in 1st C: Original Installation of WXPP
> prim - OS/2 Bootmanager (mandatory)
> prim / HPFS - sys in 2nd C: OS/2 Warp 4.52
> 
> log / ext3 - 3rd sys is Ubuntu PROD ie Gutsy
> log / ext3 - 4th sys is Ubuntu TEST ie Hardy
> 
> Without the 4th I was able to get my configuration running ! ;-)
> 
> Between 1st and 2nd is the OS/2 Bootmanager and 
> GRUB was placed into the respective Ubuntu !!!
> 
> How do I best with Ubuntu installed twice ??
> 
> Your enlightening, hints, suggestions and warnings are hot awaited
> here ! ;-)
> 
> TIA and cheers, svobi
> 
> 
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