Dual boot with PCLinux???

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Henry Dubb <henry.dubb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But upon boot I am asked what I want to boot from. There is a list
>> starting with Ubuntu 10.04.
>> At the bottom there are THREE options for PCLinuxOS:
>> linux-on
>> linux-nonfb
>> failsafe
>>
>> **ALL** options lead to the same error message:
>> Kernel panic (wonderful expression!) - not syncing
>> VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)
>
>
> I would use gpart and format drive into four partitions.
> partition 1 10.04 (10gb)
> partition 2 PC Linux (10gb)
> partition 3 /home
> partition 4 SWAP (small if over 1G of ram.

That's fine & I agree, but it's best not to use primary partitions.
1stly, the PC BIOS expects only 1 primary active partition; more than
1 is "illegal" and not good practice. 2ndly, you can only have 4
primaries, whereas you can have dozens of logical drives inside an
extended partition, allowing much more flexibility.

So I'd suggest:

partition 1 10.04 (10gb)
partition 2 extended occupying rest of the disk
in that:
 logical partition 5 PC Linux (10gb)
 logical partition 6 /home
 logical partition 7 SWAP (2x physical RAM up to a max of 2GB).

Note that Linux numbers primary partitions 1 through to 4, then
logical ones 5 & upwards, even if there are less than 3 primaries.


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