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Post subject: install aptosid on second hard drive
 Posted: 19.12.2010, 21:14
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I have been searching and reading online but haven't been able to find the answer to my question.
I have two (sda & sdb) hard drives. Sda is multibooted with Windows XP and 5 Linux distro. I have Mepis 8.5 on a partition of sda. Some of the distros come and go but Mepis is my keeper and it holds my grub bootloader (menu.lst).
If I install Aptosid 2010 xfce to sdb1 and don't allow the MBR to be overwritten, and I edit the menu.lst on Mepis to chainload Aptosid by sending it to /dev/sdb1, should this work? |
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Post subject: RE: install aptosid on second hard drive
Posted: 20.12.2010, 00:12
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1. How have you installed 6 Operating Systems, if only 4 or 5 primary partitions are allowed?
2. Uhm... I think you can overwrite the MBR on sdb, because, like you've said it, it is another disk. But I think that chainloading should work. In some BIOS you are able to choose, with a special F key, which disk you want to boot from. But to have it all in one bootloader is really a bit more comfortable |
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Post subject: Re: RE: install aptosid on second hard drive
Posted: 20.12.2010, 02:05
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sx9 wrote:
1. How have you installed 6 Operating Systems, if only 4 or 5 primary partitions are allowed?
Only 4 primary partitions are allowed. I have one extended partition with 6 logical partitions. |
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Post subject: Re: install aptosid on second hard drive
Posted: 20.12.2010, 10:59
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houndhen wrote:
If I install Aptosid 2010 xfce to sdb1 and don't allow the MBR to be overwritten, and I edit the menu.lst on Mepis to chainload Aptosid by sending it to /dev/sdb1, should this work?
it's a user choice where to install grub |
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Posted: 20.12.2010, 14:22
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If I install Aptosid 2010 xfce to sdb1 and don't allow the MBR to be overwritten, and I edit the menu.lst on Mepis to chainload Aptosid by sending it to /dev/sdb1, should this work?
Yes it should work. I have done that, but IIRC it was with Grub 1 (don't know what grub version you are using, but seems to be grub 1 as you are mentioning menu.lst)
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Posted: 22.12.2010, 00:39
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Only 4 primary partitions are allowed. I have one extended partition with 6 logical partitions.
Ah, right!
Just forgot that chainloading also works on non primary partitions. |
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Posted: 23.12.2010, 11:09
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sx9 wrote:
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Only 4 primary partitions are allowed. I have one extended partition with 6 logical partitions.
Ah, right!
Just forgot that chainloading also works on non primary partitions.
No, I start aptosid on /dev/sda9 directly without chainloading with grub2 from ubuntu. Furthermore I have an aptosid installed on an external harddrive with an grub2 installed into the MBR of that drive. So far I can boot only installations on primary partitions on that drive, but there are no limitations on my main drive.
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Posted: 23.12.2010, 19:33
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Bequimão wrote:
No, I start aptosid on /dev/sda9 directly without chainloading with grub2 from ubuntu.
So , when you install a new aptosid kernel, then you edit the ubuntu's boot config manually? or boot on ubuntu to call update-grub? |
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Posted: 23.12.2010, 20:16
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muchan wrote:
Bequimão wrote:
No, I start aptosid on /dev/sda9 directly without chainloading with grub2 from ubuntu.
So , when you install a new aptosid kernel, then you edit the ubuntu's boot config manually? or boot on ubuntu to call update-grub?
I have to call update-grub on Ubuntu. |
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Posted: 23.12.2010, 22:54
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Bequimão wrote:
I have to call update-grub on Ubuntu.
Then, don't you think chainloading is better idea?
After getting new kernel, you can reboot straight into that new kernel... |
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Posted: 27.12.2010, 19:53
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Hi muchan,
No, I actualize various installation simultaneously, and I get a new kernel every three to four weeks. I posted here, because grub2 should work regardless of a primary or logical partition. If not, it should be considered a bug.
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