Dave Houghton wrote: > Hello Everyone > > I know this is not the correct forum for this type of problem, but you never > know someone may be able to help. > > I loaded EMC2/Ubuntu 8.04 from the 'Live CD' onto a computer with Linux/BDI > EMC (from Sherline). > > When Ubuntu was loading it acknowledged the other Linux OS on the Partition > Screen. > > When I start the computer it does not give me the option to choose which OS > to use. Only Ubuntu8.04. > > I do have 6 partitions on the hard drive; I've been told the original OS is > still there. > > I have been trying on the Ubuntu forum to try and get some help, seems a bit > slow and erratic. They seem to be desperately over loaded with problems at > the moment. My problem is not urgent or major because EMC2 is up and > running. > > Anyone have any suggestions (nice ones) > If you still have other systems on there, and you just want to get at the files, then you can use commands of the form :
sudo mkdir /mnt/olddisk (only need to do this once) sudo mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/olddisk (/dev/hda<n> is the partition you want to mount) ls -al /mnt/olddisk (to see the whole file system of the other partition) You can use the above to look at the /boot partition of these other systems, and see the name of the kernel init file and the the kernel itself. You can also see the file /boot/grub/menu.lst which has the grub commands that actually load the other OS. You could enter these command manually at the Linux boot prompt to make sure that OS is still complete and bootable, and if so, add these commands to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file on the Ubuntu 8.04 system. Then, when you boot up, you will get a menu of OS's to choose from. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
