Installing Triple boot

[wsnuehring]

Question. I used the WUBI to install Ubuntu on my windows 7 OS. I liked it but from time to time would get a NTFS5 no identifier problem. Now what I was considering was to try to do SUSE as well. I would like to have windows 7, Ubuntu and SUSE and the boot-loader to ask which one of the three do I want to boot from.

Has anyone done this and if so (since I think wbui is strictly for Ubuntu) what loader would I use to do this with? And if that works then I'd like to go one step further and install the sun solaris version as well. Trying to learn of these three but needing to maintain my windows environment as well.

Thanks much

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome.
I moved your thread here, it'll get more exposure that way.

[wsnuehring]

Thank you Sir

[MikeTbob]

If you want to install them to the hard drive, install Windows 7 first, Then SUSE, then Ubuntu, GRUB (Bootloader) should detect all OS's and configure accordingly.
Keep in mind, you can use one swap partition among many distros and your /home directory should be a separate partition also to be shared among distros...just be sure and use a different username for each distro.

[unassassinable]

I would install Windows 7, Ubuntu then SuSE...suse has a nice full color grub boot screen...ubuntu's is just...text.

However, doing it this way, you will need to modify the menu.lst file and point the ubuntu partition to the correct hard drive partition as SuSe kinda botches this up.

[MikeTbob]

I would install Windows 7, Ubuntu then SuSE...suse has a nice full color grub boot screen...ubuntu's is just...text.

However, doing it this way, you will need to modify the menu.lst file and point the ubuntu partition to the correct hard drive partition as SuSe kinda botches this up.

I just got lucky with the order I gave....but I thought Suse was borky like that, the last time I tried it.

[unassassinable]

I just got lucky with the order I gave....but I thought Suse was borky like that, the last time I tried it.

Yup, SuSE totaly skips the ubuntu installation when creating the grub menu. I have to go in and copy the suse entry, paste it and manually fix where ubuntu is installed. I have clients that use different distros for different things so if they come knockin' with a problem I like to boot into an actual running instance of the OS (not a VM) and see whats up. A while back my menu.lst looked like this, the original asker may be able to reference this for his setup (notice I combined the XP with 7 installation as Windows boot.ini handled these):

title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.29-0.1
    root (hd1,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-0.1-pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3200826A_5ND387B2-part3 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3200826A_5ND387B2-part1 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.29-0.1-pae

title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.29-0.1
    root (hd1,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-0.1-pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3200826A_5ND387B2-part3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe vga=0x31a
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.29-0.1-pae

title Fedora 10 - 2.6.27.29-170
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686 root=UUID=63b18290-3ef7-4394-9eb9-8d05e4e925f5 ro rhgb quiet
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686.img

title Ubuntu 9.04 - 2.6.28-11
    root (hd0,3)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=19313afa-8dcc-45ae-9708-ea731fadd1ca ro quiet splash
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
    quiet

title Sabayon - 2.6.29
    root (hd1,1)
    kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon root=UUID=bc34e959-0656-4f45-9f50-4c628ea4ad91 dolvm init=/linuxrc splash=silent,theme:sabayon vga=791 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet resume=swap:/dev/sdb1 real_resume=swap:/dev/sdb1
    #kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon  root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=8192 real_root=UUID=bc34e959-0656-4f45-9f50-4c628ea4ad91 dolvm init=/linuxrc splash=silent,theme:sabayon vga=791 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet resume=swap:/dev/sdb1 real_resume=swap:/dev/sdb1
    initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-sabayon
    quiet

    #savedefault
title Windows XP SP3 & Windows 7
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1

title Floppy
    rootnoverify (fd0)
    chainloader +1