d
English, Old Russian, or Arabic, that denotes two of the things in question.
...
As you have three installed operating systems, you do have a multi-boot system,
as well as a triple boot system. Those with dual boot, quadruple boot, quintuple
boot, etc. systems also have multi-boot systems.
On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 14:04 +, Kruppt wrote:
> On 2013-10-30, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > I've wondered about this or something similar. Has anyone tried having
> > each OS install their grub to their partition, rather than the MBR ??? and
> > then having a separate grub configuration that in
On 2013-10-30, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> I've wondered about this or something similar. Has anyone tried having
> each OS install their grub to their partition, rather than the MBR ??? and
> then having a separate grub configuration that installs onto the MBR
> which lets you chain-load each of th
On Thursday 31 October 2013 09:08:32 Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 05:25:45PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 October 2013 16:45:18 Darac Marjal wrote:
> > > Actually, it's possible to remap keys in the shell.
> >
> > How??
>
> OK, a quick web search says the technique
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 05:25:45PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 October 2013 16:45:18 Darac Marjal wrote:
> > Actually, it's possible to remap keys in the shell.
>
> How??
OK, a quick web search says the technique I used to use (a series of
setkey statements) is no longer supported
On Wed 30 Oct 2013 at 09:32:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> >
> >Do not install GRUB for the new install. Run update-grub from whatever
> >you do boot into.
>
> Thought I had tried that. Got a couple of installs to do today. I'll
> try it. Thanks.
Perhaps it would be less work t
Brian wrote:
On Wed 30 Oct 2013 at 08:55:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
QUESTION_TWO:
Is there an automatic way for the Grub menu to display the
associated partition label instead of the kernel id? the partition
designation (sda1 ... sda8 etc) would be minimally acceptable.
Automating the me
On Wed 30 Oct 2013 at 08:55:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> QUESTION_TWO:
> Is there an automatic way for the Grub menu to display the
> associated partition label instead of the kernel id? the partition
> designation (sda1 ... sda8 etc) would be minimally acceptable.
Automating the menu displa
I've wondered about this or something similar. Has anyone tried having
each OS install their grub to their partition, rather than the MBR — and
then having a separate grub configuration that installs onto the MBR
which lets you chain-load each of the partitions (or LVs or whatever?)
My thinking is
On 30/10/13 10:16 AM, Brian wrote:
On Wed 30 Oct 2013 at 08:55:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
The combination of running the Debian Installer with as many
defaults as possible and Grub2 being automatically installed each
time results in two annoying characteristics.
ONE:
On boot, the the last
On Wednesday 30 October 2013 16:45:18 Darac Marjal wrote:
> Actually, it's possible to remap keys in the shell.
How??
> I used to use a
> dvorak keyboard with grub quite happily.
Thanks,
Lisi
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 04:58:13PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
>
>
[cut]
> >
> >Don't know if I'd call Grub2 bloated, but Grub-legacy was friendlier.
>
> In my own and humble opinion, and for my needs, it is.
> I do not hate grub, since when you do not have complex needs it
> wor
Le 30.10.2013 16:58, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit :
which
does not happen in stable Debian (the one officially recommended for
users).
Error from myself, sorry, it happens in stable too.
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Le 30.10.2013 15:48, Richard Owlett a écrit :
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 30.10.2013 14:55, Richard Owlett a écrit :
I have a laptop physically set aside for _experimenting_ with
install
parameters to determine my optimum configuration. One install will
duplicate as closely as p
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:48:55 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
> Don't know if I'd call Grub2 bloated, but Grub-legacy was friendlier.
Maybe not bloated, but grub2 was certainly broken the last time I tried it.
Specifically, (1) when I installed a system using grub2, it would install on
the fi
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 30.10.2013 14:55, Richard Owlett a écrit :
I have a laptop physically set aside for _experimenting_ with
install
parameters to determine my optimum configuration. One install will
duplicate as closely as possible whatever comes with some donated
hardware
Brian wrote:
On Wed 30 Oct 2013 at 08:55:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
The combination of running the Debian Installer with as many
defaults as possible and Grub2 being automatically installed each
time results in two annoying characteristics.
ONE:
On boot, the the last system installed will
Le 30.10.2013 14:55, Richard Owlett a écrit :
I have a laptop physically set aside for _experimenting_ with install
parameters to determine my optimum configuration. One install will
duplicate as closely as possible whatever comes with some donated
hardware for the church's after school program
On Wed 30 Oct 2013 at 08:55:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> The combination of running the Debian Installer with as many
> defaults as possible and Grub2 being automatically installed each
> time results in two annoying characteristics.
>
> ONE:
> On boot, the the last system installed will be
I have a laptop physically set aside for _experimenting_ with
install parameters to determine my optimum configuration. One
install will duplicate as closely as possible whatever comes with
some donated hardware for the church's after school program for
pre-teens.
The combination of running t
> installing without using GRUB's loopback facility.
>
>Okay, I'm game. What is an easier method of booting Debian from a memory
> card to install it into a machine without a CD-ROM? TIA
Bob has pointed you at the definitive one. It should suit 99.99% of
users, unless there
Intense Red wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> > Are you sure you want to do this? It is easier to get the installer
> > installing without using GRUB's loopback facility.
>
>Okay, I'm game. What is an easier method of booting Debian from a memory
> card to install it into a machine without a CD-ROM? TI
Hi Brian,
Thanks for your reply. It was thorough, complete, and all of the steps you
listed out were perfectly logical and made sense.
The only problem is that it doesn't seem to work. :-) I can't even get to
the first step of mounting the memory card.
> Are you sure you want to do this?
On Sat 01 Dec 2012 at 22:53:27 -0500, Intense Red wrote:
>I've been trying to set up Testing/Wheezy's DVD ISO to boot from a memory
> card/USB thumb drive, as outlined at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-
> multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/
You'll have a FAT16/32 filesystem on th
I've been trying to set up Testing/Wheezy's DVD ISO to boot from a memory
card/USB thumb drive, as outlined at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-
multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/
I have the *.iso file renamed "debian.iso" and put in the root directory of
the USB drive/memory ca
On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 15:20:33 +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> If my understanding of grub is correct, the execution of
> "grub-install /dev/sda":
>
> (1) writes the various grub files to the "/boot/grub" directory of
> the partition corresponding to the operating system which executes
* Brian [121110 13:18]:
> On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 06:34:27 +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
...
> > I instructed the Squeeze installer to install grub2 to /dev/sda1.
> > I instructed the Wheezy installer to install grub2 to /dev/sda7.
> > I instructed the Ubuntu installer to install grub2 to /dev/s
On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 06:34:27 +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I wish to use grub2 to multi-boot the following systems:
>
> => Debian "stable" (Squeeze) on /dev/sda6
>
> => Debian "testing" (Wheezy) on /dev/sda7
>
> => Ubuntu (1
I wish to use grub2 to multi-boot the following systems:
=> Debian "stable" (Squeeze) on /dev/sda6
=> Debian "testing" (Wheezy) on /dev/sda7
=> Ubuntu (10.x) on /dev/sda8
This is a "work" machine and my primary interest is "
Charles Blair writes:
> FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial
> cylinder
>
>fdisk -l /dev/sda gives:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector
. Before Vista, Windows absolutely required
its boot partition to be marked bootable. I don't know if that is true
now, as I haven't done any multi-boot work since XP. But Linux does not
use the bootable flag, so there's no harm in moving it to sda2 to try.
There's a (I hope) mino
I tried to set up a dual boot of windows and linux from
the installer. The linux part works, but windows 7 starts to boot
and then takes me back to grub.
I am sufficiently happy with linux that I was planning to get
rid of windows. I would like to use the space to give openBSD a
try.
A
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On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 05:10:40PM -0500, Charles Blair wrote:
> ** THE MESS *
>
>I recently tried to set up a multi-boot with windows 7
> and squeeze on a laptop. When started, grub displays
>
>/dev/sda1 Windows 7
>/dev/sda2 also Windows 7
>
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Charles Blair wrote:
> ** THE MESS *
>
> I recently tried to set up a multi-boot with windows 7
> and squeeze on a laptop. When started, grub displays
>
> /dev/sda1 Windows 7
> /dev/sda2 also Windows 7
> /dev/sda3 Win
On 05/28/2011 05:10 PM, Charles Blair wrote:
[snip]
We can only pray that you have...
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** THE MESS *
I recently tried to set up a multi-boot with windows 7
and squeeze on a laptop. When started, grub displays
/dev/sda1 Windows 7
/dev/sda2 also Windows 7
/dev/sda3 Windows 7 recovery
/dev/sda4 Debian
/dev/sda5 Debian recovery
I am relieved that
I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning
to install on it several OSs: MacOSX 10.5.8 (Hackintosh),
Solaris10, OpenSolaris, Debian, OpenSuse, Fedora, BSDs
(FreeBSD and OpenBSD). The computer is a Dell netbook
Mini9 which supports all these operative systems ver
Hello,
AFAIK at least for Linux you need 1 primary partition of small size (200MB
is nearly too big) which contains /boot if you want to use LVM.
greetings,
vitaminx
2009/10/3 Tom H
> >> I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning
> >> to install on it several OSs: MacOSX 10.5.8
>> I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning
>> to install on it several OSs: MacOSX 10.5.8 (Hackintosh),
>> Solaris10, OpenSolaris, Debian, OpenSuse, Fedora, BSDs
>> (FreeBSD and OpenBSD). The computer is a Dell netbook
>> Mini9 which supports all these operative systems very well
>>(
* Luis Maceira [091002 15:55 -0700]
> The case: I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning
> to install on it several OSs: MacOSX
> 10.5.8(Hackintosh),Solaris10,OpenSolaris,
> Debian,OpenSuse,Fedora,BSDs(FreeBSD and OpenBSD).The computer is a
> Dell netbook Mini9 which supports all the
The case: I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning to install on
it several OSs: MacOSX 10.5.8(Hackintosh),Solaris10,OpenSolaris,
Debian,OpenSuse,Fedora,BSDs(FreeBSD and OpenBSD).The computer is a Dell netbook
Mini9 which supports all these operative systems very well(with the
Solar
Hi,
I recently found that there are these kind of collection CDs that contains
multi small Live CDs on one CD, and bootable floppy disk images as well.
I've found one utility to create such CDs, but that's Windoze based.
I'm wonder if anyone knows if there is any way to create such collection C
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:06:46 -0600
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I hadn't thought about the inability to resize FAT partitions
without reformatting.
AFAIK PartitionMagic can resize FAT32 without any problems.
So can parted (or qtparted). It will e
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:06:46 -0600
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hadn't thought about the inability to resize FAT partitions
> without reformatting.
AFAIK PartitionMagic can resize FAT32 without any problems.
Andrei
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Rocky Ou wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote
Make a complete disaster recovery set.
Is Knoppix live CD good enough?
Good enough for what? A disaster recovery set is whatever
you need in order to be able to recover your Windows 95
from a zapped hard drive. What do you use for backup now?
The poin
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On 3/24/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
patrick bourne wrote:> From: "Patrick
dows 98 or would you
recommend installing debian by itself. I went to the
Making a multi boot system is the most complicated
piece of system admin that one can do. OTOH, many
have done it successfully. I have created a few
multi-boot systems, some with three bootable OS on
them. This system ca
Bonjour à tous,
J'ai du mal à configurer Grub et je demande assistance... J'ai
la Debian installée sur mon premier disque IDE (hda). J'ai
Windows installé sur un autre disque SATA (sda?). Grub arrive
correctement à démarrer la Debian mais je n'arrive pas à le
configurer pour qu'il démarre Windows.
> "Kevin" == Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:28:27PM +0100, Chris Searle
Kevin> wrote: Hi Chris, why not make a boot disk? man mkboot -Kev
Machine has no floppy drive. Nor CD-ROM (unless I undock one of the
hard drives). Nowhere to put the dis
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:28:27PM +0100, Chris Searle wrote:
Hi Chris,
why not make a boot disk?
man mkboot
-Kev
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
OK - multi-boot.
hda1 Win2k
hdc1 Win2k
hdc6 boot for debian
hda1 is a bog standard win2k system
hdc1 contains it's replacement to be run under vmware under debian in
hdc6.
Trying to set it up so that either lilo (installed on hdc but not in
the mbr) or ntldr (on hda1) can boot both sy
Wesley Harris said:
> I was running windows me, used partition magic to partition linux
> partitions, then installed debian 3. Unwisely, I let it boot from the mbr.
> Now windows won't load at all, saying system files are missing or
> corrupt.
more info is needed:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
mount each
I was running windows me, used partition magic to partition linux
partitions, then installed debian 3. Unwisely, I let it boot from the mbr.
Now windows won't load at all, saying system files are missing or corrupt.
lilo.conf looks like this for where windows should be:
other=/dev/hda2
label
I just got home from work, sorry for the late reply. I've only
installed Windows and Linux on a single disk once. Maybe someone with a
little more experience in this area could step up to the plate? Anyway
have you read the installation instructions at --
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i38
You can get multiboot using lilo, that'll give you what you want, here's a
little example (my own lilo.conf) (I removed uninteresting things):
image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.0-test1c1
label=2.4.0-test1c1
read-only
image=/boot/bzImage-2.2.15c1
label=2.2.15c1
read-only
image
I have one hard drive that ive already partitioned. I was going to setup
debian on the un used half. So you see I can't unpulg my hard disk. Will
this be a problem?
It sounds like you will have Debian on one drive and Windows on
another. You can use 'lilo' to boot one or the other. There s
I have set up several dual-boot systems (linux-windows3.1, linux-NT, and
linux-w98). If you have partition magic, I have had success shrinking the
vfat partition and creating linux partitions. However, if the linux
partition is far from the master boot-block, then you will, I think, need
to use a b
David Dodson wrote:
>
> Hello
> I've never run any kind of other operating system besides windows and I was
> considering setting up debian on one of my workstations at the office since
> its the only place I have computer and internet access. I still need to
> keep windows and absolutely under n
Hello
I've never run any kind of other operating system besides windows and I was
considering setting up debian on one of my workstations at the office since
its the only place I have computer and internet access. I still need to
keep windows and absolutely under no circumstances can I have on
To: Debian User List
Date: Saturday, August 21, 1999 8:38 AM
Subject: Multi-Boot-Loader
>Hello,
>
>Curently I am working with a workstation under Dos622/WfW311 (hda1 = c),
>Dr-Dos703/DJGPP (hda2 = d) and Debian Linux 2.1 (hda3-5)
>
>I can boot WfW311 as default and must u
you attach your configuration files for
lilos in your replying letter?
Thanks so much :)
Jack
From: Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jack Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Multi-Boot Problem
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 15:02:37 +0200
J
Jack Lee wrote:
> ...
>I can't solve the problem because
> I find /dev/hda2 is out of the 1024
> cylinder area.
HiJack (;->>),
I would suggest you to use loadlin instead of lilo (see /usr/doc/lilo/)
Otherwise, if you intend to change your partitions, I had no problems with >
1024 cyl lil
Hello,
I have the same problem, but I have two partitions for Dos/Dr-Dos and
then Linux like:
hda1c: Dos 6.22 + WfW 3.11
hda2d: DR-Dos 7.03 with TCPIP and DJGPP
hda3Linux-Root/Boot
hda4Linux-Swap
hda5Linux-User
I have tried to boot with LI
Hi:
Currently, I'm tryign to install
Oracle8 SQL Server, Linux version.
In the "Detailed Installation
Instructions" prividered, in Chapter 2,
section "Tasks to Perform as the root User",
it asks to configure LINUX kernel Interprocess
Communication (IPC) parameters. It then says
the default set
Hi:
I'm currently using Debian on
/de/hda1, which is 2G. Also, I have
MSDOS on /dev/hda2. I"m just wondering
how can I use lilo to boot /dev/hda2?
I can't solve the problem because
I find /dev/hda2 is out of the 1024
cylinder area.
I tried to use "linear" option in
/etc/lilo.conf , but
n
> Hello,
>
> Curently I am working with a workstation under Dos622/WfW311 (hda1 = c),
> Dr-Dos703/DJGPP (hda2 = d) and Debian Linux 2.1 (hda3-5)
>
> I can boot WfW311 as default and must use a bootdisk to get DJGPP or
> Linux running.
>
> Please can anyone recom
Hello,
Curently I am working with a workstation under Dos622/WfW311 (hda1 = c),
Dr-Dos703/DJGPP (hda2 = d) and Debian Linux 2.1 (hda3-5)
I can boot WfW311 as default and must use a bootdisk to get DJGPP or
Linux running.
Please can anyone recommend a Multi-Boot-Loader so that I do not must
>How do I get it to boot to my second hard drive? How do I set up the multiboot?
>
>Many thanks.
>
>Ed Egan.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are you still using the NT bootmanager? If you do, you need to install the Linux
Loader (LILO) in the MBR of your first harddrive. LILO then takes care of
ma
Hi,
Can anyone help me?
I have installed (mostly) Linux on to my secondary hard drive (d:). I have NT4
sitting on the first partition of my primary (c:) and win95 sitting on the
second partition of my primary (e:). There is also a third partition of my
primary (f:) which I use for deep store.
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:54:57 +0100, you wrote:
>You can use bootpart:
>http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm
>It generates such chain loaders. Then the boot-sequence looks like:
> nt thingie
> bootpart
> lilo bootsector on your linux disk
That's *EXACTLY* what I was looki
Hi!
Dale Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >So, you may indeed be able to do this. In any case you should be able to use
> >the
> >NT Boot Loader to start linux. This is in fact what I do. Set up LILO in your
> >linux partition and have it write the
Hi Dale Smith; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote:
>
> I have read about this in one of the HOWTO's. This is a real pain for me
> because my NT partition is ntfs, and I can't use linux tools to copy the boot
> sector.
I'm using the same setup, tha
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote:
>So, you may indeed be able to do this. In any case you should be able to use
>the
>NT Boot Loader to start linux. This is in fact what I do. Set up LILO in your
>linux partition and have it write the boot block there. Eg., if your linux
>partition w
"Lewis, James M. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
| How you partition a system depends a lot on what you are going to do
| with it. My system is just a local workstation and looks like this:
[snip]
| Maybe someone else out there with a bigger, more interesting, system can
| add some comment...
I think you mean SCSI ID, not LUN. Logical Unit Numbers are a sub-division
of a single SCSI device. Few SCSI devices use them, although an example
would be a SCSI CD-ROM jukebox. Anyway, if you cared to read Manual.txt.gz
which comes with LILO you'd see that the limitation on booting from other
th
Maybe someone else out there with a bigger, more interesting, system can
add some comment...
Personally, I have the following setup:
Adaptec 2940UW
3 x 4.3 GB UW SCSI HDDs
3 x 128 MB swap, one per drive
128 MB root partition on /dev/sda
RAID-0 across
er, more interesting, system can
add some comment...
jim
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To: Debian User (E-mail)
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Subject:Multi-Boot
I'm trying to set up a dual boot s
I'm trying to set up a dual boot system with Linux & NT 4.0. My NT system
is configured like this:
. Adaptec 2940UW
. LUN(0) 2.1GB
100MB FAT-16 (C:)
2000MB NTFS (E:)
. LUN(1) 3.25GB
3.25GB NTFS (D:)
. LUN(2) 4.33GB
Unpartitioned - Reserved for Linux
. LUN(5) Zip
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