Hi Peter, pmark wrote: > Good Day - Have been working on the trying to install Fresh Dual > Installation w/2HDD's one for Ubuntu EMC2 & one for Linux BDI EMC and the > being able to choose the OS on BOOT. Would like to have both EMC's > available in order to compliment each other. > > This Senior CZ & Newbie has been at this ALL year so what would you > All year is only 21days so far :-)
> expect?? My HDD's are set Master/Primary & Slave/Secondary. Must have > tried just about every type/way of installing, that is except the > right way. Cannot get startup screen to show both OS. I'm Missing > something??? > > Not much likely but enough to ask for help here I guess. I'm not an active EMC or BDI EMC user, just learning for now. If I remember correctly, BDI EMC was redhat based so the process is a bit different. It used LILO for bootup loader I believe. Ubuntu uses grub, which is more flexible and allows you to select kernel and modules from it's prompt in case things do not work as expected. Depending on which distribution you installed first, it's installation process installed the loader. If you installed Ubuntu last, then it should pickup other OS and configure it into it's grub if all goes well. If not then you need to either edit grub's menu or LILO's menu. I hope you use grub since it's better of the two (IMO). For grub loader use vi or nano or whatever editor and check this file: /boot/grub/menu.lst It has a lot of comments and instructions on how to use it. Lines relevant to my workstation for example look like this: title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=68b270b6-07c6-4ed1-8c66-b5acb57a60da ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic Assuming your ubuntu is on drive /dev/hda and BDI on hdb I would do something like: title BDI EMC root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.xx-generic root=/dev/hdb1 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.xx-generic The exact kernel and initrd needs to be checked from BDI's drive and include it in this menu. You may also want to read a page or two about grub use to see what to do when neither distribution boots up since you can make changes at it's prompt. For example, you can edit a line to change (hd1,0) to (hd0,0) etc. kernel parameters are also different so you might want to experiment there, even without using anything. OS you add to the menu should be last since the default is usually first but can be changed with an option or you might have problem booting currently working distribution. LILO has similar menu but I do not recommend using it. > Using Automatic partition but startup screen doesn't show for both... > only Ubuntu? The installation CD's work . I've setup Ubuntu to install > on /dev/hba1 from the start. Installed BDI at /dev/hba2 on the > Secondary & vise versa. > > I would not mix the distributions on the same drive. However /home could be the same for both even though you might find that X-windows related stuff might "collide" between the distributions. > Played about with Druid but it's a bit fuzzy? Any suggestions?? > > Thank you for your patience, understanding & taking the time to help. > > Kindest Regards, > > Peter Skerda > Good luck, -- Rafael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
