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    GRUB issue

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Paul, Apr 23, 2007.

  1. Paul

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    Okay, I installed PCLinuxOS on my M90 cause I wanted a good KDE OS. The install went fine and all, but the problem is that GRUB doesn't recognize Ubuntu. It recognizes Windows XP just fine, but for some reason won't let me boot into Ubuntu. I tried restoring Ubuntu's GRUB, but to no avail. And PCLinuxOS will just not recognize Ubuntu. It's starting to get pretty annoying, and I've never really used a Linux OS that doesn't work well with another Linux OS. Any ideas on how to fix this? I would preferably have Ubuntu's GRUB back, but if I could at least get PCLinuxOS' GRUB to work, that would be fine for now.
     
    Paul, Apr 23, 2007
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    Okay, got it working. I had to changed the hd0,4 to hd0,5 for some reason. I guess because of the PCLinuxOS install.

    I'm still not happy with the way it worked with Ubuntu though.
     
    Paul, Apr 23, 2007
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    Probably a hiccup in this version. Is there a bug report or anything on it? Maybe you could submit one.
     
    Lysander, Apr 24, 2007
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    No. PCLinuxOS is kinda down right now, and all their servers are offline. That means no updates and no bug reporting. It's supposed to be up today, so here's hoping. There has been speculation (particularly from the Inquirer) that PCLinuxOS is stopping for good, though I don't think so. I think what happened was that their servers got too overloaded for the traffic and they're having to order new hardware.

    Anyway, back to the original topic, I just think that things got moved around for some reason. When I typed "find /boot/grub/stage1" in the grub command prompt, it returned two variables, "hd0,4" and "hd0,5." Originally, Ubuntu was in hd0,4, as I can clearly see from Ubuntu's menu.lst. However, it will only boot if I use hd0,5 in Ubuntu's grub. I think it just moved Ubuntu's to make room for itself (PCLinuxOS). What I find really sad though is that it originally didn't even see Ubuntu; I had to configure that whole section by hand. It did give me 3 Windows options (it was showing my Dell utilities partition as Windows, Windows XP as Windows 1, and my FAT32 data partition as Windows 2).

    While I'm on it, though, can I make PCLinuxOS' GRUB just load up Ubuntu's GRUB, instead of just Ubuntu? I ran into this problem back when I was testing Linux Mint that it's GRUB took control, but didn't update automatically. If I updated to a new kernel, I couldn't then boot into that, and things would go haywire, because of course, the new nvidia kernel would be updated to work with the new Linux kernel, and things just overall wouldn't be fun to mess with.
     
    Paul, Apr 24, 2007
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