On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:29:20AM +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote: > I have a 160 GB HDD , thought would triple boot WinXP, Ubuntu and SXDE > > The partitions are as follows > > Drive C: 24.4 GB ( NTFS/ Windows) > Drive D: 74.7 GB ( NTFS / not used ) > Solaris partition : 60 GB approx ( UFS ) > > I want to take drive D , put swap/ext3 partition(s) in its place and install > ubuntu on it. > > I dont think Ubuntu's bootloader (GRUB) can chain-load SXDE's GRUB. > What is the solution? I dont want to blow away my SXDE partition.
SXDE's grub can load Ubuntu. Just install Ubuntu and add an entry in SXDE's /boot/grub/menu.lst file. The bootadm(1M) manpage has more details. Is the problem that Ubuntu will overwrite SXDE's GRUB? Haven't used Ubuntu in a long time. Don't remember if it has an option of not installing the bootloader. > Also, can i mount my ext3 partition in SXDE? I know I can mount UFS > partition in ro mode in linux. The FSWfsmisc package from the belenix download page should help. http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=download Venky.
