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

[Stephen Kelly]

Niall Walsh wrote:
> 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.

You are right. It's an ext3 filesystem.

> 
> If so possible solutions include:
> 
> setup a separate boot partition Xandros grub can access (e.g. ext2 or
> even fat)

I'll try this one first I guess. Should I set the bootable flag on the partition? I've always seen mixed advice on this type of thing.

> 
> 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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