Need a little help understanding "dual boot"...?!

[chazdraves]

Greetings, all!

I previously had Ubuntu about 1.5 years ago and I've decided to give it a go again after seeing a video demo of Beryl. Anyhow, I've got a second partition (used gpart) all set up and ready, but I can't figure out how to make both partitions boot-able. Hopefully that makes sense enough that someone can help?

Regards,
- Chaz

 

[Robor]

In my previous Windows/Linux dual boots all I had to do was install Windows first then install Linux (Ubuntu) and Grub handled the booting. It puts Linux first and the Windows partition as an option under 'Other Operation Systems' or something like that.

 

[nweaver]

you don't make both bootable, you can't. You put your boot loader on, and it then "boots" or "chain loads" the bootloader for the other OS's

 

[chazdraves]

Yeah, sorry, guys. I was trying to install Ubuntu 5.04 and wasn't having any luck. When I switched to the latest version, it handled it all as it should. Thanks for the help!

- Chaz

 

[Nothinman]

you don't make both bootable, you can't.

Actually you can, it's just a bit in the partition table and the only thing it might do is confuse stupid partitioning tools and you since the default MS MBR will just boot from the first active partition no matter how many are set active.