wilcal Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 This is more of an inquiry then a "bug" flag. I've spent a few days toying with getting Mandriva Cooker Mona RC1 and Ubuntu Edgy Eft Knot-2 to dual boot off the same HD with each other. Try as I might I've not been able to get the "boot" section of the Mandriva Control Center to cooperate. Anytime I put the boot code ( Grub text ) into it the MCC crashes and fails to put the new code into the Grub text fields. The MCC boot section will do just fine for itself and create multiple instances and boots for Mandriva and even older versons of Ubuntu but refuses to deal with Ubuntu Edgy Eft Knot-2 or any of the versions of Edgy. I'm not sure if this is a reportable bug or something that just has not been put into MCC Boot yet. FWIW doing the reverse. Create 4 HD partitions with http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php creating ext3 (sda1, sda2, sda3, linux-swap) Install Mandriva Mona RC1 to sda1 let it intall GRUB text. Then install Ubuntu Edgy Eft Knot-2 ( latest release ) into sda2. Let Eft install its GRUB text and it will recognize the existance of Mona on sda1 and make the necessary adjustments in the GRUB code. You will now be able to dual boot from GRUB and select either Mona or Eft and that works fine. Another interesting tool is: GrubEd http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=58261 (in French) which can be installed on Eft and makes it very easy to edit and save GRUB anyway you wish. GrubEd works wonderfully well on Eft allowing you to create GRUB boot menus for dual booting between these two Beta OS's. Do note that GrubEd does not work at all on Mona. Comments are appreciated. wilcal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted September 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Try as I might I've not been able to get the"boot" section of the Mandriva Control Center to cooperate......... Repllying to my own post: http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=25464 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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