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jimihieu

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Posted: June 11 2006,15:29

Quote (Gadabout @ June 10 2006,23:58)

JiMi, Didn't work. I think you are correct in the layout but it just didn't work. It puts nothing on hda1. Don't I need something on hda1 that would be like the MBR or like if I had installed dsl to hda1 the /boot/grub/ things would be there? I did read something about redirecting drives in grub but couldn't quite understand it. I will read more, but I sure thank you for all the help. Craig

what is the error this time?

Gadabout

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Posted: June 11 2006,17:08

Same as before, The machine boots directly into win2000. Grub never runs. Thanks Craig

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Posted: June 12 2006,00:10

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Gadabout

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Posted: June 12 2006,01:23

Well I answered one of my own questions. I have a laptop that is set up like I want my desktop setup. I have Kubunto on hda1 and dsl on hda2 and grub is on hda2. I don't know if there both Linux operating systems has anything to do with or not but it does work. I also came across an interesting grub comand that is "groot" this may tell the system where to boot from or something. I will look into this tomorrow. See ya craig

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Posted: June 20 2006,13:16

Ok, After much trial and tribulation I have gone where no man has gone before.(just kidding). I am now triple booting Win2000, DSL, and Kubunto all on the same desktop. My problem was with partitioning and I realy don't understand it enough to explain it but I had to used Kubunto's installer(Debian's installer) to partition some drives to install Kubunto and then using Kubunto's grub default it all worked. It prompted me to know if the Win2000 was on hda1 and told me it was putting something on the MBR but this didn't mess up the Win2000 booting. It all so knew that DSL was on hdb1 and set up grub correctly for that. Grub is on hdb4 now. I do know that I had to make a partition "root" and that is where Kubunto and grub now reside. I think DSL's installer needs a little work for us newbie types. I am still real shacky on partitioning in general. I guess that it. I am a happy camper. Craig

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