I saw this thread about OS's and I went "a ha"
I like to mess around with all different flavors of Linux Some of the reasons are it's free which appeals to my "el cheapo" syndrome, it's a "low requierment" OS (in other words it doesn't take up a lot of HD space and it runs fine on slower hardware) and I think it may be the "future" OS of the computing world (don't nobody get their "shorts in a twist", I have three (3) store bought WinXP CD's and "if Gods willin' and the creek don't rise" I'll probaby get a VISTA 64 bit version, I like to use the GPU2 client for folding )
What I've been doin' lately is "dual" booting different 64 bit flavors on one of my E6600 boxen. (my 2x Q6600's are WC'ed and dedicated 24/7 folders) I've never had this problem before, the boxen (E6600) at present has Ubuntu 64 v8.08 on a little SATA 80 gigger (partitioned about 40/40) I had a store bought CD with Mandriva 2008 on it (I have a bunch of store bought CD's, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mandriva, openSUSE, Puppy, DSL, CentOS, Xandros (store bought and self DL'ed), etc, I also have a drawer full of CD's I had DL'ed and burned to CD or DVD Fedora 7&8, Slackware, PCLinuxOS, Mephis (both versions), Xubuntu, etc.) and I went ahead and did the Mandriva installation (I don't think the 64 bit version has a Live CD)
It seems I can repair "grub" with the Live Ubuntu CD "easy breezy". I use the same idea as installing Windose after Linux to get grub to recognise Ubuntu. Here's the major problemo' when I install the Mandriva 64 bit flavor grub'll only recognise Mandriva and not Ubuntu
I know it's probably the menu.lst file in the boot/grub folder for the Ubuntu flavor (master boot record?). What I need is someone to walk me through the file. (someting about chain something or other? ) Oh yeah, I have a "common" swap file for both OS's.
Thanks in advance
FOLD ON!
I like to mess around with all different flavors of Linux Some of the reasons are it's free which appeals to my "el cheapo" syndrome, it's a "low requierment" OS (in other words it doesn't take up a lot of HD space and it runs fine on slower hardware) and I think it may be the "future" OS of the computing world (don't nobody get their "shorts in a twist", I have three (3) store bought WinXP CD's and "if Gods willin' and the creek don't rise" I'll probaby get a VISTA 64 bit version, I like to use the GPU2 client for folding )
What I've been doin' lately is "dual" booting different 64 bit flavors on one of my E6600 boxen. (my 2x Q6600's are WC'ed and dedicated 24/7 folders) I've never had this problem before, the boxen (E6600) at present has Ubuntu 64 v8.08 on a little SATA 80 gigger (partitioned about 40/40) I had a store bought CD with Mandriva 2008 on it (I have a bunch of store bought CD's, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mandriva, openSUSE, Puppy, DSL, CentOS, Xandros (store bought and self DL'ed), etc, I also have a drawer full of CD's I had DL'ed and burned to CD or DVD Fedora 7&8, Slackware, PCLinuxOS, Mephis (both versions), Xubuntu, etc.) and I went ahead and did the Mandriva installation (I don't think the 64 bit version has a Live CD)
It seems I can repair "grub" with the Live Ubuntu CD "easy breezy". I use the same idea as installing Windose after Linux to get grub to recognise Ubuntu. Here's the major problemo' when I install the Mandriva 64 bit flavor grub'll only recognise Mandriva and not Ubuntu
I know it's probably the menu.lst file in the boot/grub folder for the Ubuntu flavor (master boot record?). What I need is someone to walk me through the file. (someting about chain something or other? ) Oh yeah, I have a "common" swap file for both OS's.
Thanks in advance
FOLD ON!