Hi Donny, (my response is in no particular order - children duties await)
Sounds like a good idea. How many OSs do you have on the machine? My experience during install is usually Ubuntu (or which ever distro I'm installing) sees the other partitions and adds them to the list of possible boot options. Is it possible to merely install gOS without BootIt and see if it recognises each partition? I'm not certain what the limit is for GRUB but my understanding is that you generally don't need another partition/boot manager with Linux. Check out the Ubuntu forum, there may be some comments there about its limits. Maybe lodge a post asking a question about this. I'm afraid I can only speak from my own experience and say that I've had three partitions at once (windows x 1 and Linux distro 1 and 2) and GRUB has had no problems seeing and booting them. So your solution may be more complicated than is necessary and GRUB may be all that is necessary...BUT I can't say for certain. Sorry. <races off to play with children> Regards, Patrick Donny Bahama wrote: > Thanks for the help, Patrick. > > BootIt supports up to 255 active, bootable partitions. It does this by > "hiding" all but the ones you want to use for a particular bootable > environment. As a result, gOS saw the area used by other partitions as > one large, contiguous unused area. I used manual partitioning to make > sure I didn't obliterate those partitions, but there was no manual > option for installing grub to the same partition as the root file > system. I'll try unhiding the other partitions and reinstalling to see > if maybe that will force gOS to install grub elsewhere. Otherwise, > I'll check the ubuntu forums for a procedure to move grub ex post > facto. > > Cheers, > > Donny > > > > -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
