Hi there, hopefully someone can help me with this. My system has three sata drives with XP and a FAT32 data partition on the first drive, Ubuntu on the second drive, Debian on the first partition of the third drive, and Vista on the second primary partition of the third drive. Here's the output of fdisk -l:
The Vista boot manager is installed, as I understand it, on the XP partition, and it works well for booting XP or Vista. Debian and Ubuntu both have Grub installed to their root partitions rather than the mbr as I have been using the Acronis OS selector to boot all the systems. However, it seems a bit flaky as far as Vista is concerned so it would be a better solution to use Vista's boot mamager for everything.
So I installed easyBCD and attempted to point it at the Ubuntu partition (disk1 partition1). Here's the grub entry from menu.lst:
When selecting Ubuntu I just got a grub prompt and had to reboot to get back to the menu. So next I made a copy of Ubuntu's boot sector and saved it to the NST directory on the XP partition and named it nst_grub.mbr. There was already a file of that name there so I saved that to another directory for backup purposes first. This time I just got a message telling me the operating system file was corrupt. So I replaced the original file and was back to the original grub prompt.
I know I can install grub to the mbr of the first drive and use that as the main bootloader, and the Acronis bootloader is sort of working, so this isn't a disaster. However, I'd really like to get this working. Any advice appreciated.
Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 10443 83883366 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 10444 19929 76196295 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 10444 19929 76196263+ b W95 FAT32
Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 4665 37471581 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 4666 4870 1646662+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 4666 4870 1646631 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 52014 26215024+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 52015 55207 1609272 5 Extended
/dev/sdc3 55208 155061 50326416 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc5 52015 55207 1609240+ 82 Linux swap /
SolarisThe Vista boot manager is installed, as I understand it, on the XP partition, and it works well for booting XP or Vista. Debian and Ubuntu both have Grub installed to their root partitions rather than the mbr as I have been using the Acronis OS selector to boot all the systems. However, it seems a bit flaky as far as Vista is concerned so it would be a better solution to use Vista's boot mamager for everything.
So I installed easyBCD and attempted to point it at the Ubuntu partition (disk1 partition1). Here's the grub entry from menu.lst:
Code:
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-14-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-14-generic
root=UUID=ad16bbb6-c06d-4f8b-8260-f760049cd6d9 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-14-generic
quiet
savedefaultWhen selecting Ubuntu I just got a grub prompt and had to reboot to get back to the menu. So next I made a copy of Ubuntu's boot sector and saved it to the NST directory on the XP partition and named it nst_grub.mbr. There was already a file of that name there so I saved that to another directory for backup purposes first. This time I just got a message telling me the operating system file was corrupt. So I replaced the original file and was back to the original grub prompt.
I know I can install grub to the mbr of the first drive and use that as the main bootloader, and the Acronis bootloader is sort of working, so this isn't a disaster. However, I'd really like to get this working. Any advice appreciated.
