Mailing List ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #403

From:	"Julian Thomas" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [eCS T60/T61] question about installing OS/2 and Ubuntu ona T61p
Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:17:47 -0400 (EDT)
To:	"eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:31:03 +0100 Gerry Prosser wrote: > > >I recommend using Boot Manager and GRUB, but contrary to what Lewis >has said, I would NOT put GRUB in the /boot partition. That way seems >to lead to disaster and inability to boot the ECS installation CD let >alone ECS itself, just as Andy says. Don't even bother creating a >/boot partition. Not sure what the problem is with that. > >Do the partitioning with eCS and install Boot Manager and then eCS. >Then install Ubuntu and put GRUB into the root partition. I did this on a machine with Centos (not Ubuntu) and put grub in /boot (a separate partition). It all works very nicely. Used DFSee to partition, installed XP, boot manager, eCS, and Centos. -- Julian Thomas: jt@jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.net In the beautiful Genesee Valley of Western New York State! -- -- O Famous Last Words #29: "It's perfectly safe. Let me show you..."

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