I am very interested in this tutorial, by Goldfinger, as I was hoping to install several Ubuntu-based distros (64-bit) as root (~ 20 distros) on a Dell Latitude D630, for demonstration purposes, for those interested in having a go with Linux but who would like to see the choice available. Of course, I think LL is the best out of them all!
However I'm having problems installing past the first distro.
I'd be very grateful for any help, particularly from those of you who may have already successfully set up a multiple-boot system (linux only), which has more than 4 distros installed. From my understanding of Goldfinger's tutorial, this should work.
To put you in the picture: my set-up so far is a 1TB HDD, with GPT partition table, with the following partitions created using Gparted, prior to distro installation:
- 1 x 16MB Bios grub
- 1 x 8GB Swap
- 20 x 20GB primary partitions, ext 4 formatted
- remainder unformatted
I started with installation of distro1 (Ubuntu 16.04) - everything proceeded normally & updates installed successfully.
Then followed with distro2 (Bodhi 3.2.0), but the laptop boots straight into distro1, despite having set PC to boot first from the CD/DVD drive (location of each distro iso file), though the PC does start reading from the disk until it finally arrives at the Ubuntu 16.04 screen.
As far as I know I'm in Legacy mode - I think the Dell Latitude D630 is too old to support UEFI or EFI - at least I didn't see this in PC Settings screen (using F2 key).
Many thanks in advance for any help
Mike
However I'm having problems installing past the first distro.
I'd be very grateful for any help, particularly from those of you who may have already successfully set up a multiple-boot system (linux only), which has more than 4 distros installed. From my understanding of Goldfinger's tutorial, this should work.
To put you in the picture: my set-up so far is a 1TB HDD, with GPT partition table, with the following partitions created using Gparted, prior to distro installation:
- 1 x 16MB Bios grub
- 1 x 8GB Swap
- 20 x 20GB primary partitions, ext 4 formatted
- remainder unformatted
I started with installation of distro1 (Ubuntu 16.04) - everything proceeded normally & updates installed successfully.
Then followed with distro2 (Bodhi 3.2.0), but the laptop boots straight into distro1, despite having set PC to boot first from the CD/DVD drive (location of each distro iso file), though the PC does start reading from the disk until it finally arrives at the Ubuntu 16.04 screen.
As far as I know I'm in Legacy mode - I think the Dell Latitude D630 is too old to support UEFI or EFI - at least I didn't see this in PC Settings screen (using F2 key).
Many thanks in advance for any help
Mike
64bit OS (32-bit on Samsung[i] netbook) installed in [i]Legacy mode on MBR-formatted SSDs (except pi which uses a micro SDHC card):
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work