On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:17:47 -0400 (EDT)
 "Julian Thomas" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com> wrote:

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.

Indeed, Julian. Perhaps it is distro-specific? In my experience, I can typically put GRUB anywhere *except* the MBR, as long as it can find grub.conf (which of course, is GRUB's Achilles' Heel: the fact that it must rely upon a configuration file located elsewhere in the filesystem(s), vs BM's more compact approach).

Currently on my test system (not a T61, BTW), the only distros which are giving me boot problems are SLES 9 and OpenSolaris. OES2/Linux seems happy (based on SLES 10), openSuSE 11 seems fine (still getting used to that KDE 4 stuff, but that's a matter for a different list!), and CentOS 4 seems okay. Other OSes on the box include W2K, XP, and of course, eCS 2.0 RC6.

I've never had the opportunity to play with Ubuntu or Kubuntu, so perhaps there's some difference between your version and Gerry's. As I said before, I'm mainly a SuSE guy these days - when it comes to *nix, at least - and I was speaking from that experience.

Cheers/2, all.