[gobolinux-users] Dual-booting GoboLinux and Ubuntu

[Jeremy Visser]

Thanks for the advice, both of you. I'm now writing this post inside
GoboLinux 013, happily running alongside Ubuntu and Windows XP.

I didn't want to reinstall Ubuntu, so I didn't use Jakob's grub
technique. Instead, I installed Gobo without the "Install Bootloader"
option, and copy-and-pasted the important contents of
/System/Kernel/Boot/grub/menu.lst into the end of Ubuntu's
/boot/grub/menu.lst file, and it worked fine.

The only trouble I had was that qtparted refused to create a partition
in the 10GB of free space I created. I had three primary partitions, so
I had room for a fourth, but qtparted's "Create" menu option remained
stubbornly disabled. I resorted to using the Ubuntu live CD, and gparted
did the job perfectly. Was that a known issue?

Also, I might add that updating Compile sucked. The first thing I wanted
to do after starting up Gobo was install the NVIDIA driver. So, I typed
'sudo Compile nvidia'. Of course, it complains that the recipe needs a
different version of Compile, so I typed 'sudo InstallPackage Compile'.
The next thing was that it stuffed the Compile.conf file. I needed to
add a couple of definitions to the file, like compilePackedRecipesDir
and compileGetRecipeDir, which the new version needed. It should have
automatically updated the config file.