New machine, trying to dual boot with Ubuntu, Foresight, already partitioned.
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Okay, so I'm already partitioned, and I'm on Ubuntu. However, I want to run Foresight on my other partition. I installed it, but now I can't make the bootloader find Foresight, which is weird, since I installed the bootloader, which, if anything, would override my Ubuntu, or so I thought. At any rate, if someone could help be dual boot, I'd be very appreciative. I'm not afraid of the terminal, and I like to think I'm okay with computers, so lay the tech on me! Also, if I'm in the wrong spot, please, don't hesitate to move me. Thanks!
Boot into Ubuntu and edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst. Add a title section entry in menu.lst to boot Foresight as well as Ubuntu. You can get an idea of what the Foresight title section should look like by looking at the /boot/grub/menu.lst in the Foresight partition.
thanks! I have a favour to ask though. Could you be a bit more detailed? I sort of get it, but not all the way, also I can't find that .lst file on my foresight partition.
In your ubuntu /boot/grub/menu.lst you will find title sections. Each title section starts with a title line which names one of the entries which appear on your boot menu. Here is an example title section:
You need to add an additional title section at the end for your Foresight operating system You need to know what partition the Foresight / is on and the names of your Foresight kernel and initrd.
I know that foresight is on /dev/sda3 on my machine, and I entered in that data, in fact, I'm interning at stanford, and asked the help of three of the best Linux users they had in the gates building (by the way, there are maybe three or four windows machines in the entire building named for Bill Gates), and they spent three hours working on changing menu.lst
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