Dual Boot Problem

[mischa falkenburg]

Mike Holstein wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Ralf Mardorf 
> <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net <mailto:ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 09:53 -0500, Mike Holstein wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:37 AM, mischa falkenburg
>     > <because_productions at myfairpoint.net
>     <mailto:because_productions at myfairpoint.net>> wrote:
>     >
>     >         Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>     >         > On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 07:28 -0500, mischa falkenburg
>     wrote:
>     >         >
>     >         >> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>     >         >>
>     >         >>> On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 09:06 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>     >         >>>
>     >         >>>
>     >         >>>> PS:
>     >         >>>>
>     >         >>>> For GRUB there should be a line
>     >         >>>>
>     >         >>>> timeout 8
>     >         >>>>
>     >         >>>> and for GRUB2 there should be the lines
>     >         >>>>
>     >         >>>> if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
>     >         >>>>   set timeout=-1
>     >         >>>> else
>     >         >>>>   set timeout=10
>     >         >>>> fi
>     >         >>>>
>     >         >>>> or similar.
>     >         >>>>
>     >         >>>> AFAIK the numbers for the timeouts are seconds.
>     >         >>>>
>     >         >>>> Hth,
>     >         >>>>
>     >         >>>> Ralf
>     >         >>>>
>     >         >>>>
>     >         >>> PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPS, pardon:
>     >         >>>
>     >         >>> You might use GRUB2 and you perhaps has got an issue
>     >         regarding to a
>     >         >>> recordfail.
>     >         >>>
>     >         >>>
>     >         >>>
>     >         >>>
>     >         >>>
>     >         >> HI Ralf, thanks for your many responses.
>     >         >>
>     >         >> As you can see from what I've written Ronan, there may be
>     >         more going on
>     >         >> here rather than not seeing anything (initially).
>     >         >> Did the install of UbuStu 10.04 happen or not?
>     >         >>
>     >         >> Thoughts?
>     >         >>
>     >         >> Mischa
>     >         >>
>     >         >
>     >         > With a live cd or from the Linux that can be booted copy
>     >         >
>     >         > /boot/grub/menu.lst
>     >         >
>     >         > or
>     >         >
>     >         > /boot/grub/menu.cfg
>     >         >
>     >         > to an email to the list. I guess just the menu entries are
>     >         missing.
>     >         >
>     >         > Take a look at all partitions. If there are folders
>     /boot on
>     >         some
>     >         > partitions there should be the kernels. For any kernel
>     there
>     >         has to be
>     >         > an entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst, for
>     /boot/grub/menu.cfg it
>     >         can be a
>     >         > little bit complicated.
>     >         >
>     >         >
>     >         >
>     >         >
>     >
>     >         (copying the info from ...grub isn't "behaving", but
>     just from
>     >         my
>     >         looking at .../menu.lst, all that's listed are two different
>     >         8.04 LTS
>     >         kernels:
>     >
>     >         2.6.24-28-generic
>     >         &
>     >         2.6.24-19-generic
>     >
>     >         Nothing in the file about 10.04...,
>     >
>     >         I also don't see a file for .../menu.cfg , is that
>     supposed to
>     >         be in the
>     >         Grub folder?
>     >
>     >         Mischa
>     >
>     >
>     >
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>     > i think it would have been a good idea to get the older install
>     (8.04)
>     > up to GRUB2, then install the 10.04 (with GRUB2). i would try
>     reading
>     > over the GRUB2 wiki page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 ,
>     > also maybe
>     > this
>     https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
>     >
>     >
>     > i have used http://gag.sourceforge.net/ in the past, you could
>     try it
>     > or another 3rd party bootloader and see if you can find your OS's...
>     > good luck
>
>     Hm? I guess we could help him with GRUB too, anyway, GRUB2 isn't that
>     bad for such a situation.
>
>     After installing GRUB2 it's always possible to
>     run /usr/sbin/update-grub, which will execute grub-mkconfig, hence a
>     menu list with every possible kernel will be generated, if wanted or
>     unwanted ;). It's still possible that some entries are bad, but at
>     least
>     everything is added.
>
>     Maybe a good idea to switch to GRUB2, because it's the default
>     bootloader for newer Ubuntu.
>
>     - Ralf
>
>
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>
> im not suggesting that we wont help with grub1, what im saying is... 
> grub1 was installed with the 8.04 version... then, GRUB2 is installed 
> with the 10.04 version.. SO basically what i am assuming is currently 
> installed on the computer is this configuration, a 10.04 GRUB2 install 
> that is not finding the 8.04 version and booting it... is this correct??
>
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> MH
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The only version that boots is 8.04...when the install took place for 
10.04, it "saw" the 8.04 on the drive, asked if that was correct, etc.

Mischa