How to dual boot Puppeee and Mandriva?

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petermoule2
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How to dual boot Puppeee and Mandriva?

#1 Post by petermoule2 »

I have recently installed Puppeee Linux for Atom on my Asus.My hard
drive now looks like this:SDA1 Mandriva 2010.2, SDA6 Puppeee Linux, SDA7
/home for Mandriva. Puppeee does not appear on the boot menu.
Anyone have a method for getting it there?
Regards,Peter

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#3 Post by 8-bit »

Depending on if you boot Mandriva with grub and a menu.lst file or with LILO, you just edit either the menu.lst file or lilo.cfg file to add Puppy to it.

I am not going into what to add as their is a lot of information available on that and all you have to do is a search for it.

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#4 Post by nooby »

Mandriva? Is that one not so new that it has grub2 maybe that would explain why it does not have puppeee on it.

You have to learn how to make Mandriva add puppeee to the special file that one add other os on. Sure one can do it manually too and then refuse to update or upgrade but suddenly Mandriva do that without asking so better to learn how to do it properly and update the grub menu.

Look for instructions how to add an OS to a grub2 in any OS and most likely Mandriva also use that method. There is a search engine in my signature. try words like

puppy boot update grub2 config

or similar.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#5 Post by James C »

Mandriva 2010 still used good old legacy Grub.The new upcoming release still does too.

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