From: "Gerry Prosser" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com> Sender: gerry.prosser@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] multibooting eCS and Ubuntu on a T6x Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:24:10 +0100 To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>

Lothar ... this should not be difficult provided you steer clear of Vista ...

1. start with a clean harddisk and boot from the eCS disk
2. install boot manager
2 create 2 further primary partitions for eCS and Ubuntu - don't think
it matters in which order,but I would put Ubuntu first (I trust OS/2
to behave better in the upper reaches of the disk)
3. format eCS partition with JFS and install eCS
4. install Ubuntu from the 9.04 64-bit distro using the graphical
installer. Do NOT use the alternate installer as Grub will overwrite
the MBR since it will think it is the only OS present.
5. choose manual partitioning
6. specify the Ubuntu partition to be '/' (root)and suggest you format
it with EXT3(don't use JFS thinking it is the same as ours, 'cos it
isn't, and IBM seems to have ditched it too)
7. note which partition (in linux terms) you are installing to -
probably /dev/sda2
8.look carefully at the screens for an 'Advanced' push-button in the
bottom right corner. Click it.
9. that will give you the Grub set-up screen- tell it the partition
name you noted at (7)
10. installation should then procede to a successful conclusion 8-)

Good luck!


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Lothar
Frommhold<ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com> 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
>
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