Saturday, April 10, 2010

Dual Boot OpenBSD/Ubuntu/Vista using GAG

GAG is a really nice boot manager. Very easy to install and very small in size.

My configuration is as follows
- I installed Vista first then installed OpenBSD 4.6 , then I installed GAG and everything works fine.

Second configuration
- Installed Ubuntu by replacing above Vista , and then later installed GAG but GAG does not work

The trick is when u install Ubuntu , Install grub on its own root partition such as /dev/sda2 and not on the disks MBR (/dev/sda)

Then when you install GAG things will work fine. The reason for this is GAG replaces whatever boot manager (grub) in the earlier case if grub is installed on the MBR. So to keep Ubuntu intact and make it work with GAG install grub on the linux partition.

/dev/sda1 - ubuntu (/ as ext4) -- This was previously Vista
/dev/sda2 - OpenBSD
/dev/sda5 - swap

GAG works with ext4

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