From: "madodel" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:29:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] multibooting eCS and Ubuntu on a T6x
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Lothar Frommhold wrote:
> How does one actually set up a T61p so that one can boot to either 
> eCS2.0 RC6a or Ubuntu 9.04? (I don't care about other OSs at this 
> point). For example, suppose I installed the IBM boot manager first with 
> eCS using half or so of the hard disk, leaving the other half blank. How 
> would I proceed to install Grubb (the linux boot manager, which I think 
> one needs) and then Ubuntu? Is there a step-by-step instruction 
> somewhere available that might help me? Any help you may be able to give 
> is appreciated!
> 
> Lothar
> 


Lothar,

I already had eCS 2.0 RC6a installed.  I had deleted the original Lenovo 
installed SLED 10 partition completely.  I then installed OpenSUSE 11.0 on 
my T61 using DFSee to create the root and swap partitions.  Not sure about 
Ubuntu but for OpenSUSE I had to tell it to install grub to the root/boot 
partition or else it would wipe out Boot Manager in the MBR.  Then on boot 
Grub actually showed the Boot Manager as a bootable volume.  But I added 
OpenSUSE to BM and boot everything from there.


Mark