Dual boot?

[Steven Vollom]

On Tuesday 17 February 2009 1:09:37 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 15 February 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Norberto Bensa <nbensa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> # 10
> >> title Kubuntu-8-10
> >> root (hd1,0)
> >> kernel /vmlinuz
> >> initrd /initrd.img
> >> boot
> >
> >Oh, one tip.
> >
> >When you boot your machine, while in grub, press 'c' and enter this
> > commands:
> >
> >root (hd1,0)
> >kernel /[tab]
> >
> >(by [tab] I mean press the TAB key; maybe you need to press it twice :-) )
> >
> >Do you see vmlinuz-2.6.*-generic ? If so, hd1,0 is your kubuntu
> >install. If not, try:
> >
> >root (hd2,0)
> >kernel /[tab]
>
> Interestingly, while I am booted to the drive connected to sata1, which
> is "root (hd0,0)", the 400GB Hitachi, plugged into sata2, is "root (hd2,0)"
> Common sense would have said it would be (hd1,0), but what I see when I
> tell it root (hd1,0) is identical to (hd0,0). (insert sound of scratching a
> slowly balding 74 yo head here)
>
> OTOH, I am booted (f8) to /dev/sdb1 (/boot) and /dev/sdb3 (/), so maybe it
> makes some sort of perverse sense.  I believe some would say IFM :)
>
> Thanks you for the hints, they were quite valuable.
>
> What I did was to mount /dev/sdc1, find its menu.lst, and copy/paste that
> into my F8 grub.conf, adding the "root (hd2,0)" in each stanza below the
> 'title' line. (I'm going to have to do that again as it installed at least
> 2 newer kernels with the updates below)
>
> That worked, Juanty-alpha4 booted and I let adept install nearly 300
> updates, but I wasn't able to make adept show me an available listing, has
> that been removed?
>
> On 6.06, adept and synaptic are virtually workalikes as either can be used
> to select and install new packages, now it won't do anything but update
> whats installed.
>
> In any event I did, once the updates were fetched, an "apt-get install vim*
> synaptic*" and it pulled in another ~105 packages. Then synaptic worked
> just fine, as did vim to edit the /etc/network/interfaces & make it fixed
> addressing when I next boot Juanty.  So progress is being made.
>
> >Repeat until you see the Kubuntu kernel. Once you see it, you'll know
> >which hdX is holding your kubuntu kernel.
> >
> >HTH,
> >Norberto
>
> Next unsilly Q:  I use fetchmail/procmail(with SA) here to pop 3 accounts,
> placing all the incoming that has gotten past the filters
> into /var/mail/xxxx, running all the above as that unpriviledged user.
> I am assuming I can just transplant all the rc files to do that to me
> (gene) on the Juanty install, possibly with a chown cuz your users start at
> ID=1000 & up, once fetchmail, procmail, and spamassassin are installed of
> course.
>
> FWIW, the currently F8 installed version of fetchmail has a very occasional
> race in MSG_PEEK according to my logs, but if its actually effecting the
> mail suckage from those 3 pop servers I cannot detect it.
>
> But, if I am to copy my whole 10GB email corpus across, which is all owned
> by root:root, I'd assume a chown -R gene:mail on that ~/gene/Mail/* would
> be required there, Correct?
>
> Any other gotcha's?
>
> Thanks everybody.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Rule of Creative Research:
> 	(1) Never draw what you can copy.
> 	(2) Never copy what you can trace.
> 	(3) Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

When I was reading this post, I started to laugh.  I have been talking about 
me as an artist a bit, and I just wondered how my fellow artists would see 
your conversation.   You connect the widget to the HD4 thingie and that 
causes the whotis to whatsit.  Then you join the sd3 to the MGq and it makes 
the thing go round and round.

I just found out why fitting in has been so difficult for me in the last three 
lines of your post.  I never copy what I can draw, so I never get the chance 
to trace or paste.  Maybe now I can learn how to operate a computer.

The most fun part of this thought was that I was actually understanding what 
you are talking about.  Maybe my left-brain is starting to kick in.  Maybe 
there is still hope.

Steven