I used lilo for years and thought it was great...but my recent delve into grub, yeah its better!
A few things in your setup description don't calculate right. You say /hba1 & /hba2. The hard drives start as /hd(a-d). And by your hd spec, both linux installations are on the same hard drive. Did you instead mean /hda1 and maybe /hdb1? This would be Master/Primary and Slave/Primary. You said Master/Primary and Slave/Secondary, which would mean you are using two hard drive cables to the motherboard with the first one on Primary (correct) and the second one on slave. You should have the second slave actually set to master if there is no cdrom or other drive connected to that cable. Thus, you have two drives as master but on separate cables. (Really, cables with slave only arent an issue for modern systems, but its standard practise still.) I don't see any problem in having two boots on the same hard drive as someone else suggested, but if you have two drives why would you. Also, in the case of using the same hard drive you could probably share the swap partition, I believe the swap partition is pseudo initialized as blank on startup. If you use 2 hard drives, set the swap to be on the opposite drive. That way each OS can issue a buffer load from the OS partition and one to swap hard drive at the same time. Possibly, giving you a performance boost. Really, as others said. It sounds like you are all set to configure grub and have both systems working. You just need to clarify your setup and give it to grub. Read all about grub, there are only a few mostly used commands anyway. Run it from the terminal in Ubuntu and install the Master Boot Record. Find and edit your config. One thing I noticed in grub hard drives are specified in hd(n,p) where n - s the hard drive number 1-4 and p is the partition of that hard drive. So they translate as such: Hda1 = hd(0,0) is Primary Master Hda2 = hd(0,1) .. Hdb1 = hd(1,0) is Primary Slave .. Hdc1 = hd(2,0) is Secondary Master .. Hdd1 = hd(3,0) is Secondary Slave Hdd2 = hd(3,1) is second partition on Secondary Slave Grub will also want to know the location of a "stage" file, which is found in the /boot dir of root. And it will want to know the location of the initial ramdisk initrd if your installations have one, Ubuntu does. Good luck. C -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rafael Skodlar Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 10:35 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Dual Linux EMC Installation on Dual HDDs 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 :-) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
