Karmic (Beta) Test Installs

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Mon, 10/5/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Karmic (Beta) Test Installs
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 7:40 PM
> On 10/05/2009 05:14 PM, NoOp wrote:
> ...
> > I can see the other hardy drive in Places|20 GB
> Filesystem, but of
> > course can't boot into it until I modify Grub 2 as
> pointed out in the
> > "Grub 2 in Jaunty/Karmic can break double boot
> configuration"
> > and
> > "[Karmic] Heads up"
> > threads. So, gentle karmic testers, a read through
> those threads are
> > worth the effort :-)
> 
> Sorry, forgot to add that the above can be corrected simply
> by issuing:
> 
> $ sudo update-grub
> 
> from a terminal in the newly installed karmic (beta). Grub
> 2 will then
> pick up the other OS install(s), add them to
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg file &
> when you reboot, grub will show the other installs. Just
> tested & grub
> menu now shows the hardy install and booted into it just
> fine.
> 
Great, that's the news I was waiting for.  You can ignore my earlier post asking if you had ran update-grub.  However, one questions remains and since you upgraded over Jaunty it may not make any difference.  The question is did you install grub2(grub-pc) on Jaunty or Hardy before the Karmak upgrade?  Somewhere, I came across something saying that grub2 needed to be installed in Jaunty so that Karmak's grub2 would see the other OS's.  Apparently, the way you did things, grub2 doesn't have to be installed on Jaunty or Hardy but only to run update-grub on the Karmak install.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net