Congratulations! If you want to try installing Grub in bootsector of /dev/hda2, run grub from a terminal and take a look below:
--------------------------------- typical grub session --------------------------------------------------------------------------- sudo grub $ password: (type the password of your account) grub> grub> root (hd0,1) (hd0,1 in grub notation is /dev/hda2 in device notation) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 ( in this case my partition was formated as reiserfs) grub> setup (hd0,1) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0,7)"... 18 sectors are embedded.succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,7) (hd0,1)1+18 p (hd0,1)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded Done. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are right about XOSL. They need another partition. Can to be a FAT, FAT32 or an special format for Xosl. The size required is minimal, less than 1 MB, and if you have a Windows installation in a FAT32 partition, they can share the same partition. But if you choose FAT32, you should create a partition with at least 32 MB. For some reason, seems that FAT32 in lesser partitions have problems. Usually I create a FAT32 partition and install DOS (FreeDos, DrDos or Ms-Dos) along with some utilities like tools for cloning and reparing disk. If you don't want to install and boot DOS, you can install Xosl in a logical partition. But I'm not sure if this will work when the partition is located over cilinder 1024. In this situation we need the Int13 extensions. I agree with you. All this workaround should be only a temporary solution. I'm still waiting for Ubuntu 7.04-1. -- feisty crashes on boot, "/" system disk does not exist https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107976 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
