Dear Felix,
I have more information. It occurred to me that karmic might not be
booting because its partition started beyond 1TB. I deleted the 1TB
partition at the start of sdc and installed karmic on that space and
it would still only boot windows 7 (on sda) and Jaunty (on sdb) using
grub
Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 20:19 + schrieb Roderic Jones:
Karmic has now been installed but grub (legacy) shows only Jaunty and
Windows!!!
grub.cfg looks good.
So just make sure you load grub2 instead of grub-legacy.
Maybe the installer put it on a different disk
or just use
I am afraid this does not work. Grub Legacy will boot to Windows or
Jaunty.
Running Karmic from the live CD - it is not possible to mount the
Karmic partition.
It is possible to run Karmic using the Super-Grub disc - this shows
the Grub2 menu and then boots into Karmic.
Runiing grub-install
os-prober gives:
/dev/sdc2:Windows Vista (loader):Windows:chain
fdisk -l gives:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xeee5a48c
Device Boot Start End
Karmic has now been installed but grub (legacy) shows only Jaunty and
Windows!!!
os-prober now gives:
/dev/sdc2:Windows Vista (loader):Windows:chain
/dev/sdc5:Ubuntu karmic (development branch) (9.10):Ubuntu:linux
Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 02:22 + schrieb Launchpad Bug Tracker:
menu.lst had windows booting from hd(0,0) and this needed changing to
hd(1,1) to work although I had calculated it should be hd(2,1)
It is all working fine now. I wonder if Grub 2 can cope with windows 7
booting from a
Public bug reported:
I have spent a day remedying this situation and I still do not fully
understand what has gone on.
I have three hard discs:
sda - single partition - Windows Vista was installed on this and more
recently windows 7 release candidate. I use this infrequently to run
Xara Xtreme
