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Mandriva Cooker Mona struggles with dual boot


wilcal
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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

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