Hi For the past few days have been wanting to try other distros's along with my existing Ubuntu 7.04. So i installed Mandriva 2008 spring on an external USB HD (my laptop supports booting of USB).
For the second OS (being installed on the external usb HD) i made an additional /boot and pointed the grub loader to be installed on this section. However when i try and boot of the USB HD the boot loader does not appear. So a few questions : 1. Why does not the second OS work 2. Is there a way i can add the boot loader for the Second OS (Mandriva 2008) to my existing Ubuntu OS menu.lst. There was a possibility to ask the Mandriva to install the boot loader to the onboard HD section but it seems that Mandriva cannot / does not see all the existing OS's that are there. Currently my main Ubuntu 7.04 boot options are Ubuntu MS windows MS Windows (recovery) Mandriva sees only Ubuntu 7.04 and MS Windows The windows recovery partition does not appear. **** I tried copying a section of the USB HD's mandriva menu.lst to the ubuntu menu.lst, specifically the following lines title linux *(Mandriva)* kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=9be80552-9983-4062-b4da-1247596cbbae resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.img i could not figure out the hd* section so randomly changed it to hd1 and the device /dev/sda5 to /dev/sdb5. But while it showed up on the Ubuntu boot loader it just said that target device could not be found, when i tried booting to Mandriva. So will it work if the correct hd device is pointed to ?? and any idea how i find the correct hd device since both Ubuntu and Mandriva identify them separately. thanks ram PS I could post the menu.lst in case its required. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
