Red Knuckles Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 I just installed Mandriva today on a HD with another partion [/dev/hda/1] with Ubuntu. What do I need to do to correct this??? [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Welcome to the board. I'm not too sure just what you did. Do you have Ubuntu on hda1 and Mandriva (which version) also on hda? How did you set up your partitions and your bootloader? More specifics on your set up would be helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uralmasha Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Red Knuckles, if its' not that you installed Mandriva over ubuntu, it looks like you have the problem that Mandriva includes only itself in the bootloader menu, plus any windows partitions. If you use GRUB loader for both mandriva and ubuntu, to get acess to Ubuntu OS you need to edit your Mandriva bootloader settings in /boot/grub/menu.lst. title linux kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 splash=verbose resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img That's a typical entry for an OS in the grub loader, you need to make a copy of such an entry in your menu.lst and modify it. For ubuntu you have to change (0,4) to (0,x), where x is the sequential number of your ubuntu partition on the disk. Looks like you have to use (0,0). The other change is the root destination. Obviously, it should be root=/dev/hda1 in your case. I find it helpful to (a) mount ubuntu partition to, say, /ubuntu (b) open /ubuntu/boot/grub/menu.lst and copy the appropriate lines from there. hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 (edited) If you chose all the defaults when installing mandriva, then lilo, not grub, was installed as the bootloader. If you have ubuntu on another partition and want ot have the option to boot either mandriva or ubuntu, you need to manually make a boot entry for it. To help you do that, post the following: The location of your ubuntu root partition. Your post indicates this is /dev/hda1, but it's not clear. Alos, state what linux filesystem you used on ubuntu, eg. ext3, reiserfs, xfs, ect. Your /ect/fstab file and your /ect/lilo.conf file. Edited January 31, 2006 by pmpatrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Knuckles Posted January 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 I managed to screw things up worse and had to wipe my HD and start over. I'm working on a Mandriva install right now but would like to install other distros on my HD [300GB]. What is best way to do that??? Also during install I selected Icemv Desktop [not sure I spelled that right] rather than KDE. Can I switch it back to KDE??? If so How??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 You can have many different distros installed, and play around. In that case it's advised to use the same loader in all (either LILO or Grub, the general consensus is that grub is more flexible), one common /boot partition (which should be small, no more than 40 MB) where you should put all the kernel images you like to boot) and separate root partitions for every distro. My advice is messing for starters with just ONE distro... The other stuff you had loaded is IceWM, which is not a desktop, but rather a window manager. You can switch easily to KDE by opening as root "mcc" and going to the boot and logon options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Knuckles Posted January 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Ok, I got KDE set as Desktop.and will for time being use 1 or no more than 2 distros at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 If you're going to add distros it makes sense to plan out how you partition your hard drive in advance. Generally folks have a separate /home partition. Note also that Mandriva defaults the first user to a uid of 501, while Ubuntu defaults to 1000. You can deal with that, but you need to be aware of it. Enjoy and good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Knuckles Posted February 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 Thanks, I should stick to one OS until I RTFM on partioning. Where is a good manual for partitioning? What would be a good partioner to use? I have QTParted on the 'System Rescue CD' plus whatever the various Distros offer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 The Mandriva partitioner is quite nice (MCC -> Mount Points) and easy to use and as you have Mandriva installed might as well use it. There are lots of threads on partition schemes and file systems on the board. Some of the choices are idiosyncratic and some are based on specific needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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