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airmind

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Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 16

Installing Arch alongside Ubuntu

I'm new to Arch, but I have been using Ubuntu for a while.

I have Ubuntu installed with a boot partition (grub) and a separate root partition. I want to install Arch and have both Ubuntu and Arch in my Grub prompt. Last time I tried this with a new Ubuntu version, I ended overwriting my older Ubuntu files in the boot partition and it became unbootable. This time I thought about installing grub for Arch in the root partition of Arch, and make Ubuntu's grub call it by chain-loading, but it's not ideal (I would have 2 Grubs). What is the best way to do this?

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Installing Arch alongside Ubuntu

Don't install grub from arch and just add the arch entries to ubuntu's menu.lst, arch's entries don't have to be edited on kernel upgrades like ubuntu's does so you wont run in trouble.

I've got this for arch:

title           Arch Linux sda1
root            (hd1,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 rootfstype=ext3 ro vga=795
initrd          /boot/kernel26.img

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Installing Arch alongside Ubuntu

Just install one grub (either archs or ubuntus) and make sure entries for both arch and ubuntu are present in /boot/grub/menu.lst

[edit] someone was faster

Last edited by pressh (2007-08-07 12:59:30)

airmind

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Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 16

Re: Installing Arch alongside Ubuntu

Thanks. I finally understood what happened to my boot files