dual boot TinyMe with Ubuntu [Resolved]
 

Hi,

I have TinyMe-2008.1 installed and I would like to install Ubuntu-8.10. My partition is as follows

/boot 64 M
/ TinyMe 38 G
/swap 1.5 G
/ Ubuntu 39G

I'm having trouble with the Grub, and I don't know what to do about it.

Can someone tell me how to install Ubuntu as a dual boot with TinyMe?
Right now I have TinyMe booting and it runs fine.

You dont need to do anything! just install ubuntu and the installer will detect the TinyMe and will add it to the boot menu right after ubuntu.

Hi r1d3r,

I installed Ubuntu into my forth partition without designating the first partition as /boot and the installation didn't detect TinyMe. I will try reinstalling Ubuntu designating the first partition as /boot and see what happens.

Well, that didn't work! I'm going to repartition my HD to get rid of the /boot partition and let Gurb take care of itself in both TinyMe and Ubuntu. I'm going to partition my HD as:

/ TinyMe 15G
/swap 1.5G
/ Ubunto 25G
/data 38G

and try to make the /data partition a common mount point for data.

I'll let you know what happens.

OK, that worked! I have a multiboot system with TinyMe and Ubuntu. TinyMe recognizes /mnt/data as a mount point, I still have to figure out how to get Ubuntu to do that. Also, I need to get Ubuntu to display 1080x786 resolution.

Boot into Ubuntu and run the command: mkdir /mnt/data (do as sudo)
Then mount it (again as sudo): mount -t ext3 /dev/sda4 /mnt/data

The above assumes your data partiton is sda4, fourth partition on first drive. If not, change. Use fdisk -l to find correct partition info. You will then need an entry in your Ubuntu /etc/fstab file so you can read that partition from Ubuntu.