[ILUG] Grub issue trying to dual bootubuntu with stock xandros on eee.

[Niall Walsh]

Quoting Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to install ubuntu on the larger (16GB) partition of  
>  my EEE 901. The installation worked and I can chroot into it from   
> xandros, but I can't boot it.
>
> http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=57667

I'm going to make an educated guess that you, or the Ubuntu installer,  
formatted your Ubuntu partition in a way that the Xandros grub cannot  
understand such as ext4 or ext3 with 256 byte inodes.

If so possible solutions include:

setup a separate boot partition Xandros grub can access (e.g. ext2 or  
even fat)

or

putting the kernel and initrd (or entire Ubuntu grub) in a folder on  
the Xandros install

or

re-installing to a partition format the Xandros grub will understand

or

install grub from Ubuntu and reverse the whole scenario to boot  
Xandros from Ubuntu's grub

Niall


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