by rafe » Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:00:23
replaced Suse 10.2 with Ubuntu Intrepid on my secondary office box,
which I also use to run XP when necessary. while the Grub which Suse
installed did a good job setting up, Ubuntu not so much -- it could
boot all the available Ubuntu kernels, but when XP was selected, would
hang. I must have tried a dozen different combinations of drive
assignments without success.
finally, thanks to Super Grub Disk (a remarkable tool for getting
through just these sorts of problems, highly recommended) I got back
to XP's bootloader, and can use the SGD CD to boot Ubuntu.
I've asked on the SGD and Ubuntu forums, but am just curious if any
experts here would want to hazard suggestions how I should edit my
menu.lst to be able to boot XP, as well as Boot Manager.
by the way: I decided to try Intrepid after getting a little eeePC
1000 a month or so ago -- the same one, I think, that's shown in that
video running eCS. it's very nice, I must say -- apart from being
pleasing to my eye, Synaptic is head and shoulders above anything I
ever used in any of the Suse distros I tried. one of the nifty things
about this eee PC is its ability to boot from a little SD(HC) card.
one thing I would actually pay money for is one of these babies
formatted with eCS to suit the eee.
here is how SGD describes my disk layout. I have a feeling that
somehow the SCSI drive assignment and/or Boot Manager is what confused
Grub, but I have a hard enough time figuring out Unix drive
assignments much less understanding how Grub talks to the BIOS.
(incidentally, notice hda2, where eCS may someday live).
N IDE SCSI FGRUB HURD TYPE SIZE OS
1 hda1 sda1 (hd0,0) hd0s1 Uknown 7MB
2 hda2 sda2 (hd0,1) hd0s2 HPFS.NTFS 2GB WINDOWS
3 hda3 sda3 (hd0,2) hdos3 Uknown 1004 MB
5 hda5 sda5 (hd0,4) hdos5 HPFS/NTFS 7GB WINDOWS
6 hda6 sda6 (hd0,5) hdos6 HPFS/NTFS 9GB WINDOWS
7 hda7 sda7 (hd0,6) hdos7 HPFS/NTFS 14GB WINDOWS
8 hda8 sda8 (hd0,7) hdos8 SWAP 1GB
9 hda9 sda9 (hd0,8) hdos9 SWAP 2GB
10 hda10 sda10 (hd0,9) hdos10 ext2fs 11GB Ubuntu 8.10 \n \l
11 hda11 sda11 (hd0,10) hdos11 ext2fs 17GB
& here is menu.lst
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic
uuid 7b2666ae-c50a-4e66-89bf-7ee746b0d57b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=7b2666ae-
c50a-4e66-89bf-7ee746b0d57b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 7b2666ae-c50a-4e66-89bf-7ee746b0d57b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=7b2666ae-
c50a-4e66-89bf-7ee746b0d57b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
uuid 7b2666ae-c50a-4e66-89bf-7ee746b0d57b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=7b2666ae-
c50a-4e66-89bf-7ee746b0d57b ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 7b2666ae-c50a-4e66-89bf-7ee746b0d57b
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=7b2666ae-
c50a-4e66-89bf-7ee746b0d57b ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
title Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
uuid 7b2666ae-c50a-4e66-89bf-7ee746b0d57b
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
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