[Hampshire] Booting 3 distros.
I have Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 on the first hard drive of my desktop machine. I thought I would try Fedora 17 so I installed it on the second hard drive and had it boot from that drives MBR not wanting to risk not being able to boot the other two. I thought Grubs os-prober on the first drive would find Fedora. It does not. Any suggestions on how I can boot Fedora. I tried Super Grub Disk and Plop Boot Manager but they also don't find it. -- Clive -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Booting 3 distros.
On 04/07/12 11:16, Clive Woodfine wrote: I have Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 on the first hard drive of my desktop machine. I thought I would try Fedora 17 so I installed it on the second hard drive and had it boot from that drives MBR not wanting to risk not being able to boot the other two. I thought Grubs os-prober on the first drive would find Fedora. It does not. I had a problem where grub2 on Ubuntu woudln't find Centos installed on a separate partition. It turned out that Centos used LVM for its disks, but I hadn't used that on Ubuntu. As soon as I installed the LVM libraries on the Ubuntu (apt-get install liblvm2app, as far as I can remember), grub found Centos. Simon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Booting 3 distros.
I had a problem where grub2 on Ubuntu woudln't find Centos installed on a separate partition. It turned out that Centos used LVM for its disks, but I hadn't used that on Ubuntu. As soon as I installed the LVM libraries on the Ubuntu (apt-get install liblvm2app, as far as I can remember), grub found Centos. Simon Thanks Simon. I have LVM2 installed though it does not include liblvm2app, in fact that is not listed in Synaptic. If I run the command lvdisplay the boot partition on the 2nd. drive shows up okay. I ought be able to get to Grub on the 2nd. drive with chainloader but have been unsuccessful. -- Clive -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
