sklarsky Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 So i started out with one SATA drive running leopard 10.5.4, then upgraded to 10.5.4 i installed an IDE hard drive and put ubuntu 8.04 on it, but somehow grub got installed onto the SATA hd (cuz i could only boot if that hd was first in the boot list. so i configured grub to boot os x by copying the i386 folder and using chainloader +` then i got a second sata hd. when i plugged it in, the ide hd became hd0 and the sata became hd1 (not sure why they just switched since the new one was hd2 ... i installed xp-x64 on the new sata drive, but don't use it cuz i couldn't get it to install with AHCI working. the other day i decided to upgrade ubuntu to 8.10 through ubuntu's upgrade utility and stupidly forgot to back up my grub menu.lst ... oddly it configured ubuntu's own grub configurations wrong which i had to manually change. adding osx86 and xp to the boot list again was no big deal... i even recopied the i386 folder to the /boot/grub/ folder no dice. tried using hd0, hd1, hd2 .... no go. it just won't boot and i don't get why ubuntu upgrading on one hd would affect the booting of the other. i've attached my grub menu.lst any thoughts? ~j menu.lst.txt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/134413-ubuntu-810-upgrade-broke-my-grub/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
shavex Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 What i dont understand is why you didnt just get one big harddrive and then partition it. But anyways, I recently upgraded to 8.10 on my desktop and i have Vista x64, Leopard 10.5.4, and it was 8.04. But i did notice that in your GRUB you have Mac booting differently than me... title Mac OS X Leopard root (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 I don't know if that will make a difference but thats my first thoughts. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/134413-ubuntu-810-upgrade-broke-my-grub/#findComment-952658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sklarsky Posted November 2, 2008 Author Share Posted November 2, 2008 well, i mean my hard drives are plenty big for that... leopard is on a 640gb, ubuntu on a 160gb, and xp on a 500gb. originally my thuoght was just to let each drive have its own bootloader for its own os and use the bios to switch... EDIT: WORKING NOW well, i feel silly. it wasn't makeactive that made the difference... i didn't notice till after i found the problem that your grub also had it booting partition 1 instead of partition 0. completely forgot about the EFI partition ... i think what threw me off was that last time i entered it, it was 0,1 ... so now that the hd switched from 0 to 1, i had put in 1,0 and got dyslexic. changed it to 1,1 and all is good. thanks! now i think i might switch xp to be on the ide drive so i don't have to worry about ahci... (i hope) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/134413-ubuntu-810-upgrade-broke-my-grub/#findComment-952667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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