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#1 2008-11-13 04:11:44
- The Orange Peanut
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- Registered: 2008-01-06
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Couple of questions (1 regarding grub, another regarding vesa driver)
The jist of it is that I have a 12 gig partition that Ubuntu 8.10 is installed on, but doens't work. My primary OS is Ubuntu 7.10 on the main partition. I want to install Arch on the 12 gig partition, but I'm afraid I don't know how to install/fix grub. I've used Arch before, but it was on a standalone HDD so I just followed the beginner's guide; it isn't quite so simple this time. How can I install Arch on my secondary partition and still use the grub on the primary partition?
Second: Whatever catalyst driver is in the repos (8.10 I think) does not play well with my computer. In fact, it kernel panics immediately (it doesn't matter what distro, it always happens). Therefore, I'm going to use the vesa driver... but there are two things. How do I set up my xorg.conf to allow 1280x1024 resolution and 24 bit color? I want my videos and pictures to be clear...
The Arch install is just so I can screw around and figure out things. I want to use a tiling WM and stay away from DE dependencies so when I get a new computer (with a video card that doesn't crap out on me) I can just install Arch and be done with it.
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#2 2008-11-13 06:12:02
- u_no_hu
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- Registered: 2008-06-15
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Re: Couple of questions (1 regarding grub, another regarding vesa driver)
For the first question..
Install arch, but dont install grub. edit your current grub installation's menu.lst and add an entry for arch with arch partition name,kernel etc..
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda9 ro resume=/dev/sda8 vga=0 quiet
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
savedefault
boot
title Arch Linux Fallback (on /dev/sda9)
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda9 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
savedefault
bootLast edited by u_no_hu (2008-11-13 06:12:49)
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