Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-21 Thread L V Gandhi
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com wrote: The os-prober program will find the different OS's on the separate partitions or Volumes and add them to grub.cfg when you run the update-grub command or the OS runs it. I have yet to see it not find them and add

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 08:02:49 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: I have already installed windows xp and squeezei386 with grub in MBR. I would like install squeeze amd64 in other partition for multi boot. If I install grub in MBR while installing squeezeamd64, then how do I boot squeezei386 as its boot

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-21 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 21/07/12 10:26, L V Gandhi wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com wrote: The os-prober program will find the different OS's on the separate partitions or Volumes and add them to grub.cfg when you run the update-grub command or the OS runs it. I

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-21 Thread Joe
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:56:07 +0530 L V Gandhi lvgl...@gmail.com wrote: thanks. what I am doubting is not about finding other OSes while installing new OS squeezeamd64, but about the squeezei386 whose grub is now in MBR. When I install new squeezeamd64 if it over writes MBR, then old squeeze

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 08:02:49AM +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: I have already installed windows xp and squeezei386 with grub in MBR. I would like install squeeze amd64 in other partition for multi boot. If I install grub in MBR while installing squeezeamd64, then how do I boot squeezei386 as its

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-21 Thread L V Gandhi
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 08:02:49AM +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: I have already installed windows xp and squeezei386 with grub in MBR. I would like install squeeze amd64 in other partition for multi boot. If I

Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-20 Thread L V Gandhi
I have already installed windows xp and squeezei386 with grub in MBR. I would like install squeeze amd64 in other partition for multi boot. If I install grub in MBR while installing squeezeamd64, then how do I boot squeezei386 as its boot info is not in its partition boot sector. How should I go

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-20 Thread Shane Johnson
The os-prober program will find the different OS's on the separate partitions or Volumes and add them to grub.cfg when you run the update-grub command or the OS runs it. I have yet to see it not find them and add them(it usually adds ones you don't necessarily don't want like restore partitions.)

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-20 Thread Shane Johnson
Please make sure to reply-all on your responses so they hit the list. I have included it in the CC for this message. Thanks Shane On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:33 PM, vykuntam srinivas vykuntamsrini...@gmail.com wrote: this may help you: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair On Sat,