Page 1 of 1
Haha I'm on Linux too now
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:25 am
by UBT - Halifax on Linux
Live CD works fine Ubuntu looks great, couldn't logon to forum as thats on my USB stick and not installed it as yet
Time to install this to my spare hard drive
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:52 am
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Hmm well back on Windows now can't work out how to boot onto Linux now through the other drive, will have to look into this later when had sleep
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:04 am
by Rockinfroggi
Gawd, another Penguin wannabe
Gary.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:54 am
by DJH@GB-Ro
When one OS is stored on each disk:
Go to start menu and click run.
Then type sysdm.cpl and press OK.
Then click on the advanced tab and under 'Startup and recovery' click Settings.
There you have options for the boot, should be able to tick 'Time to display list of operating systems' etc
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:22 am
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Thats is already set, but I don't get a choice of anything when I reboot
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:28 am
by DJH@GB-Ro
UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Thats is already set, but I don't get a choice of anything when I reboot
May have to edit the boot file manually....
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 11:00 am
by UBT - Halifax-lad
DJH@GB-Ro wrote:May have to edit the boot file manually....
Sticking my head back into the sand now
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:52 pm
by Darren
Is it fixed yet?
If not post a screenshot of Startup & Recovery page and also a listing of what is inside the file that appears when you click edit on that page.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:57 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
don't have owt to show, just don't know how to get Linux to boot now its installed on the other drive
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:00 pm
by Darren
On the windows machine, post a screenshot of Startup & Recovery page and also a listing of what is inside the file that appears when you click edit on that page.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:02 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:06 pm
by Darren
Way back (about 3 years) we used to install linux and we needed to setup grub when we were installing it. Did you do that bit?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:06 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
aint it suppose to do it all for ya?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:08 pm
by Darren
It was an option when I used to install it!
one way to boot into it is to change the bios to boot from the other hard drive first! (Sometimes pressing f8 at the bios screen gives you a menu)
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:16 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Will have a play around at weekend i think, may just stick it all on same HD
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:33 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Think I know whats wrong with it, will have another bash another day with it