Triple-boot? -- XP Pro/ubuntu [or kubuntu]/Mandriva

[Olaf Stein]

If you have never done this before backup your data.
Also, make boot disks for you running systems for the worst case that you
screw up the bootloader.

I would let the ubuntu installation take care of it.

If, when getting to the bootloader config, you see that not all your OS`s
are in the list, do not install the bootloader. That at least will not mess
up the other OS`s.

Then boot into madriva and add your ubuntu system to the existing list in
lilo.conf
You need to remember the partition /dev/had* most likely

Example from http://www.netadmintools.com/html/5lilo.conf.man.html

boot = /dev/hda
delay = 40
compact
vga = normal
root = /dev/hda1
read-only
image = /zImage-2.5.99
        label = try
image = /zImage-1.0.9
        label = 1.0.9
image = /tamu/vmlinuz
        label = tamu
        root = /dev/hdb2
        vga = ask
other = /dev/hda3
        label = dos
        table = /dev/hda



-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Mattsen
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 4:30 PM
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
Subject: Re: Triple-boot? -- XP Pro/ubuntu [or kubuntu]/Mandriva

On Monday 30 January 2006 14:58, Olaf Stein wrote:
OS> I assume that you current bootloader is whatever mandriva uses (or 
OS> windows in the worst case). You would have to let that bootoader 
OS> know that there
is
OS> a third OS to boot. As I have never used mandriva I do not know what 
OS> bootloader it uses and what interfaces it has to configure it.
OS> 
OS> It is probably easier to let ubuntu take care of this. If I recall
correctly
OS> it tells you what other oprating systems are installed/found and 
OS> will be added to the list of bootable systems before installing the
bootloader.

I don't know (can't remember) what Mandriva uses as default, but it's likely
lilo, as that's what I have in place, and I don't recall opting out of grub,
though I could have.  In any case, lilo's in place.

If the [k]ubuntu install handles it auto-magically and at the end of the
install I'd have a boot with all 3 options without my intervention in the
process, all the better.

If it doesn't handle it automatically, after the [k]ubuntu install is where
I would get stuck, as to what step(s) to take right at that point.  Again,
not having done this before, and getting different advice as to how ago
about it, is why I'm so tentative.

--
Chuck MATTSEN / Mahnomen, MN, USA / mattsen at arvig.net Mandriva Linux release
2006.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.12-13mdk-i686-up-4GB / RLU #346519
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