Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-21 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > [...] > I'd show you how I chained openbsd, but the partition in question is > not mounted and I'm not logged in on an admin group user right now. This is for booting openbsd from the grub installed by debian Linux. I don't know how applicable i

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/20/14, Rusi Mody wrote: >> Any suggestions as to what to do. I've looked at several web pages about >> this and most seem out of date & I'm apprehensive about directly editing >> the grub.cfg file as it says to NOT do that. >> Thanks! >> John > > My impression (from the grub mailing lists) i

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, John Foster wrote: > Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running > several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got > windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the > grub2 osp

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Rather than probing, I prefer to have grub pass the boot off to the > installed distro's own boot loader by chaining. That way, each install > can update it's own loader and be done with it. Complete agreement. Of course, what really should happen is that Grub itself should do (at boot) the pro

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:58 AM, John Foster wrote: > Any one using multiboot please reply. Hi. > I have a system that is running several == 3 or more? > several linux distros, > each on its own hard drive. I have also got windows 7 > pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. At least 5 phys

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 21/08/2014, John Foster wrote: > Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running > several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got > windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the > grub2 osprobe to recognize the KfreeBSD disk as

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/08/14 12:58 PM, John Foster wrote: Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the grub2 osprobe to recognize the KfreeBSD disk a

Re: Re: multiboot on usb?

2012-10-03 Thread geoff
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: multiboot on usb? From: Brian Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:40:51 +0100 Message-id: <20121003114051.GM22368@desktop> In-reply-to: References: On Wed 03 Oct 2012 at 10:12:22 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > I want to check differen

Re: multiboot on usb?

2012-10-03 Thread Brian
On Wed 03 Oct 2012 at 10:12:22 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > I want to check different distros ( instead of using several pens), so > > I want to create on an usb pen a mutli boot system. > I used unetbootin, it works fine but for only one system at time. > on Windows there are some

Re: (Solved) Re: multiboot problem in squeeze

2012-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 14 May 2012 01:20:11 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > Thank Camaleón! > I decide I'll replace Mandrake 9.2 with etch and I have tested with etch > etch can boot squeeze Well, of course Etch -GRUB legacy- can boot Squeeze and Squeeze -GRUB2- can also boot Mandrake, but if that's an acceptable so

(Solved) Re: multiboot problem in squeeze

2012-05-13 Thread Long Wind
Thank Camaleón! I decide I'll replace Mandrake 9.2 with etch and I have tested with etch etch can boot squeeze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cab-gxzdb

Re: multiboot problem in squeeze

2012-05-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 14:54 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2012 09:01:21 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > > > On 5/13/12, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> > >> Wow... that's a very old Mandrake release (kernel 2.4.22), and from the > >> above line, it seems that you are not using "chainloading" but d

Re: multiboot problem in squeeze

2012-05-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 13 May 2012 09:01:21 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > On 5/13/12, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >> Wow... that's a very old Mandrake release (kernel 2.4.22), and from the >> above line, it seems that you are not using "chainloading" but directly >> booting your old Mandrake from GRUB2. If yes, then it c

Re: multiboot problem in squeeze

2012-05-13 Thread Indulekha
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:01:21AM -0400, Long Wind wrote: > On 5/13/12, Camaleón wrote: > > > > > > Wow... that's a very old Mandrake release (kernel 2.4.22), and from the > > above line, it seems that you are not using "chainloading" but directly > > booting your old Mandrake from GRUB2. If yes,

Re: multiboot problem in squeeze

2012-05-13 Thread Long Wind
On 5/13/12, Camaleón wrote: > > > Wow... that's a very old Mandrake release (kernel 2.4.22), and from the > above line, it seems that you are not using "chainloading" but directly > booting your old Mandrake from GRUB2. If yes, then it can be that you > (well, not "you" but the os-prober) missed s

Re: multiboot problem in squeeze

2012-05-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 May 2012 20:05:44 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > my hard disk looks like this: > > sda1: Win XP > sda3: Mandrake 9.2 > sda4: lenny And you were booting from lenny, right? > now I install squeeze at sda4 > (lenny erased) And GRUB2 comes to place. > XP boots OK > but Mandrake 9.2 can't bo

Re: multiboot fails -- debian + ubuntu

2011-09-22 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Tom H [110921 02:09]: >> Given the grub version, it's your Wheezy install that's controlling >> boot. > > Thank you for noticing this. My intent was to have stable (Squeeze) > controlling boot, because of the vagaries of testing. But

Re: multiboot fails -- debian + ubuntu

2011-09-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tom H [110921 02:09]: > Given the grub version, it's your Wheezy install that's controlling > boot. Thank you for noticing this. My intent was to have stable (Squeeze) controlling boot, because of the vagaries of testing. But this (Wheezy) may be better. > Why did you run "grub-install"?

Re: multiboot fails -- debian + ubuntu

2011-09-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I installed Debian stable (Squeeze) and Debian testing (Wheezy) on a > single drive (multi-boot), then I installed Ubuntu > 10.04.3-desktop-i386.  In addition to a partition for each OS, the > drive has a /boot partition and a swap part

Re: multiboot grub2

2011-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:26 AM, wolf python london wrote: > On 3 May 2011 15:19, consul tores wrote: >> >> i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and >> Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use >> lilo, it works correctly, but i want to evade bios check) grub2

Re: multiboot grub2

2011-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:19 AM, consul tores wrote: > > i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and > Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use > lilo, it works correctly, but i want to evade bios check) grub2 can > not recognize OpenBSD (what is not a problem), an

Re: multiboot grub2

2011-05-03 Thread wolf python london
On 4 May 2011 10:33, consul tores wrote: > 2011/5/3 wolf python london : >> On 3 May 2011 15:19, consul tores wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and >>> Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use >>> lilo, it works correctly, but i wan

Re: multiboot grub2

2011-05-03 Thread consul tores
2011/5/3 wolf python london : > On 3 May 2011 15:19, consul tores wrote: >> Hello >> >> i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and >> Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use >> lilo, it works correctly, but i want to evade bios check) grub2 can >> not recognize

Re: multiboot grub2

2011-05-03 Thread wolf python london
On 3 May 2011 15:19, consul tores wrote: > Hello > > i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and > Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use > lilo, it works correctly, but i want to evade bios check) grub2 can > not recognize OpenBSD (what is not a problem), and i

Re: multiboot grub2

2011-05-03 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 03 May 2011 00:19:20 -0700, consul tores wrote: > i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and Slackware64-13.37: > and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use lilo, it works correctly, > but i want to evade bios check) grub2 can not recognize OpenBSD (what is > not a problem),

Re: Multiboot partitioning to share data, not dot files

2010-02-21 Thread Klaus Pieper
With LVM you could put anything on logical partitions which can be created/increased/decreased/dropped as necessary. You need a small separate boot partition, which can be shared between both systems. You might want to create a swap partition, which also is shared, maybe a separate partiti

Re: Multiboot

2007-11-22 Thread George
Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production workstation for the daily work, and the other for experimentation, testing software, add/remove apps, etc. I can then boot into the partit

Re: Multiboot

2007-11-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:02:13PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:56:21AM -0500, "Loeghmon T. Nejad" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two > > instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the

Re: Multiboot

2007-11-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:56:21AM -0500, "Loeghmon T. Nejad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two > instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production > workstation for the daily work, and the other for experime

Re: Multiboot

2007-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank McCormick wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:48:40 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production workstation for the daily work, an

Re: Multiboot

2007-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank McCormick wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:48:40 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production workstation for the daily work, an

Re: Multiboot

2007-11-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:48:40 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: > > I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install > > two instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production > > workstation for the daily work, and the other f

Re: Multiboot

2007-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production workstation for the daily work, and the other for experimentation, testing software, add/remove apps, etc. I can then boot into the partit

Re: Multiboot

2007-11-20 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:56:21AM -0500, Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: > I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two > instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production > workstation for the daily work, and the other

Re: Multiboot

2007-11-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production workstation for the daily work, and the other for experimentation, testing software, add/remove apps, etc. I can then boot into the partit

Re: Multiboot Query

2004-05-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya tony On Mon, 31 May 2004, Tony Middleton wrote: > I have a machine that is similar with Windows 98 and two Linux systems. nah... you have ONE linux syste... with 2 different kernel ( vmlinux(linux) vs vmlinux.old(oldlinux) ) > > image = /vmlinuz >label = Linux >root=/d

Re: Multiboot Query

2004-05-31 Thread Tony Middleton
I have a machine that is similar with Windows 98 and two Linux systems. My lilo.conf is as below: boot = /dev/hda1 compact lba32 prompt timeout=50 single-key verbose = 2 bitmap=/usr/share/lilo/contrib/sarge.bmp bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0 bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17 bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0 install=/b

Re: Multiboot Query

2004-05-30 Thread Paul Galbraith
Tony Bradley wrote: I am currently using the SuSE 7.2 version of Linux, and am feel I am no longer quite a newbie (but certainly no guru! ;) ) I would like to experiment with the debian distribution, but still retain SuSE in case of emergencies. Could you please explain how to install two or more

Re: Multiboot Query

2004-05-30 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Tony Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you please explain how to install two or more distributions > alongside one another on the same system, so that I can choose between > them using LILO. Create a partition or two for Debian, then tell the Debian installer to use them. Then you'll n