[nezassal]

Hi,
Just installed meeGo on my Acer Aspire One ZG5 (originally -8 gb SSD , now has got 32 gb SuperTalent SSD and 1 gb RAM).
I've just installed meeGo as 3rd OS.
Before the installation I had:
3 primary partitions: sda1 - ext3 - Ubuntu-lucid; sda2 - NTFS Windows7; sda3 - linux Swap.

!!! Important note : your GRUB bootloader will be messed up by meeGo install. It's no problem. But if you are not ready to reinstall it - stop here.

Steps taken:

1. From Ubuntu using Gparted:
shrank sda2 (Win7) to free up 4 gb of space. Create 2 extended partitions using this 4 gb:
first 3.7 GB ext3 (for main meeGo install) (became sda5), second - 300 MB (for meeGo boot partition) (became sda6).
2. Boot from meeGo live usb stick.
3. Choose "install"
4. Choose language etc and click next (!!! left and right buttons on touch pad has been messed up - left worked as right and vice-versa)
5. !!! When on partition page - choose "custom layout" (or something like that - I can't remember exaclty)
6. It will show all your partitions. Click on bigger extended partition just created (sda5 in my case), choose "edit", choose "/" from dropdown list, "OK" or "save" (again can't remember)
7. Do the same for second small partition (sda6 in my case) , but choose "/boot" mount point in this case.
6. Go ahead. Installer will warn you that it doesn't like ext3 file system - ignore it.

MeeGo will install and reboot.
Note : after first reboot I had some error : something like "id "x" doing something too fast bla-bla-bla", but I has gone on second reboot.

Now, as I said your Grub is screwed up. Nothing to worry about -it's usual stuff (everybody who've done dual boot with Windows before experienced that). meGoo installer just rewrites Grub entry in MBR.
All you need to do reinstall GRUB to MBR using Ubuntu live CD ( or Usb). there many guides on internet. Here is one of them:
thanks to Binbash

Once done, boot to your Ubuntu and run from terminal
sudo update-grub
It will pick up your meeGo installation and put it as Grub menu entry.

Thats it

[hro1]

I have an Acer Aspire One D250 HD with a Win XP and Ubuntu 10.04 allready installed. I would like to install Meego on a 7 GHz partition in the beginning of the disk. It has had Moblin 2 and UNR 9.10 on it and now it is free.

Do I need a separate /boot partition? I don't like to mess with existing partitioning.

Can I install grub for Meego into partition instead of disk? Then I could just add Meego option into Ubuntus grub configuration.

[nezassal]

Originally Posted by hro1

I have an Acer Aspire One D250 HD with a Win XP and Ubuntu 10.04 allready installed. I would like to install Meego on a 7 GHz partition in the beginning of the disk. It has had Moblin 2 and UNR 9.10 on it and now it is free.

Do I need a separate /boot partition? I don't like to mess with existing partitioning.

Can I install grub for Meego into partition instead of disk? Then I could just add Meego option into Ubuntus grub configuration.

Hi,
Yes, you need separate partition for /boot
What I would do is :
- delete partition which used to use for UNR. It will create empty space instead of that partiton
-create 2 extended partition using empty space: one 300 mb (mount point "/boot" and another one 6.7 gb (mount point "/")
- install MeeGo

Regarding GRUB:
meeGoo wil not touch your existing GRUB installation (which probably installed on your Ubuntu partiton), but it will overwrite "reference" in your HDD MBR to your existing GRUB. All you need to do is overwrite GRUB back into your HDD MBR. How to do it - follow link I gave in my previous post.


Good luck.

[hro1]

Thank you for advice.

I made my installation before your comment. Here are the gory details, not for the fainthearted.

1) Cleared sda1 partition in Windows (first logical disk on primary partition in winspeak) so I had 7 GB free space.
2) Selected the 'Custom' partition scheme with '/' with ext3 on sda1. Could probably iron out grub and mbr details later on.
3) Installation program formatted sda1 and copied liveUSB content to sda1. And then ....... the program froze. It had for reasons of its own mugged the partition table but failed after that.
4) Hard boot. Old Ubuntu menu pops up and I select WinXP. Disk tool shows that sda6 (linux swap) and sda7 (ntfs media disk) are gone. No worries, it was copies only. Try to created a new logical disk on that free space. Error message pops up - something unexpected had happened. No usable info in system log.
5) Restart and select Ubuntu. Skip all missing mounts on fstab and we are back to normal. Create a new swap partition and use rest of the space for a FAT partition. Fix fstab etc.
6) Try to reboot into WinXP. No way - console says that <windir>\system32\hal.dll is missing. WTF? - I was already there after the Meego incident.
7) Reboot to Ubuntu. Go and fix C:\boot.ini file partition numbers.
8) Reboot to WinXP. No worries, we are back.
9) Reboot to Ubuntu. Mount sda1 and have a look. OK, we have a linux installation here. Create a new menu entry to Ubuntus /boot/grub/grub.cfg file by forcing latest kernel image reinstallation (ok - it can be done without resorting to excessive force, but who cares)
10) Reboot to 'unidentified Linux installation'. Drops to command line with 'cannot mount sda3, maybe disk is empty' or similar. Mm.. isn't sda3 the extended partition, not any of the logical disks in this setup.
11) Reboot to Ubuntu. Mount sda1 and fix Meegos /etc/fstab (sda3 -> sda1 as '/')
12) Reboot to Meego. Yes - Yes We Have It Now. The installation continues with keyboard - timezone - user name - password.

Twelve simple and obvious steps needed for Meego triple boot installation. Maybe should have selected some other way.

[bsving]

After some install/uninstall I found the easiest way by far (so far )

You need:
Poppy Linux www.poppylinux.org
(probably) Easeus partition manager if Windows is pre-installed www.partition-tool.com

Use Easeus to get free unallocated space on the HD.

Then use GParted in Poppy (special Linux on CD/USB) to make at least one extended partition. In the extended partition you can make lots of logical partitions. If you got lots of HD space, make the extended partition large, and "carve" out logical partitions on a per needed basis. Make one swap partition of 500 MB, it will be used for all linux distros.

MeeGo use one small (2-300 MB) ext3 partition for /boot and a larger 5+GB btrfs for / in addition to the swap. I have the ext3 as primary on my HD.

Create one 200MB ext2 logical partition and use the Grub tool in Poppy to install GRUB on that partition (with the benefit of getting rid of the terrible GRUB 2 from Ubuntu). Install the bootloader in the MBR. Look at www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub.html for info on how to use GRUB.

So, all you really need is Poppy linux and probably Easeus to initially shrink a windows partition. With the tools in Poppy you can install/remove and fix countless OS'es on your hard-drive. But be warned, you will soon discover that Poppy is ALL you need in an OS It comes shipped with Chromium and loads of tools.

[arhea79]

Tried this on my Asus 1005PE - worked like a champ! Now I am triple booting Win7, Ubuntu netbook and Meego.

[starone]

hi all,

i'm now trying to have a play with meego on a shiny new acer aspire one aod, with 160gig hd & 1gig ram. i've got two queries - one that's a dealbreaker, the other that's merely a nice-to-have issue.

i've got it booting up off the usb drive just fine, but in the course of booting the terminal flashes up an error 'unable to find wmi device' - which a google search tells me is the hotkey to turn on & off the wireless adapter; which annoyingly when it boots into meego is turned off by default - meaning there's no network connectivity. i'm neutral about whether or not the hotkey works, i just need the wireless adapter to work, so how can i make it so ?

less critically, the aspire one these days comes instead with a netbook version of android rather than ubuntu - would there be any information anywhere about how to remove android, & either dual boot windows with meego or install ubuntu replacing android to triple boot ?

[frostbyte]

Originally Posted by nezassal

Hi,
Just installed meeGo on my Acer Aspire One ZG5 (originally -8 gb SSD , now has got 32 gb SuperTalent SSD and 1 gb RAM).
I've just installed meeGo as 3rd OS.
Before the installation I had:
3 primary partitions: sda1 - ext3 - Ubuntu-lucid; sda2 - NTFS Windows7; sda3 - linux Swap.

!!! Important note : your GRUB bootloader will be messed up by meeGo install. It's no problem. But if you are not ready to reinstall it - stop here.

Steps taken:

1. From Ubuntu using Gparted:
shrank sda2 (Win7) to free up 4 gb of space. Create 2 extended partitions using this 4 gb:
first 3.7 GB ext3 (for main meeGo install) (became sda5), second - 300 MB (for meeGo boot partition) (became sda6).
2. Boot from meeGo live usb stick.
3. Choose "install"
4. Choose language etc and click next (!!! left and right buttons on touch pad has been messed up - left worked as right and vice-versa)
5. !!! When on partition page - choose "custom layout" (or something like that - I can't remember exaclty)
6. It will show all your partitions. Click on bigger extended partition just created (sda5 in my case), choose "edit", choose "/" from dropdown list, "OK" or "save" (again can't remember)
7. Do the same for second small partition (sda6 in my case) , but choose "/boot" mount point in this case.
6. Go ahead. Installer will warn you that it doesn't like ext3 file system - ignore it.

MeeGo will install and reboot.
Note : after first reboot I had some error : something like "id "x" doing something too fast bla-bla-bla", but I has gone on second reboot.

Now, as I said your Grub is screwed up. Nothing to worry about -it's usual stuff (everybody who've done dual boot with Windows before experienced that). meGoo installer just rewrites Grub entry in MBR.
All you need to do reinstall GRUB to MBR using Ubuntu live CD ( or Usb). there many guides on internet. Here is one of them:
thanks to Binbash

Once done, boot to your Ubuntu and run from terminal
sudo update-grub
It will pick up your meeGo installation and put it as Grub menu entry.

Thats it

I followed these instructions (also on an Acer ZG5) and I am now successfully dual booting Ubuntu 10.04 NBE and MeeGo. Only very minor gripe is I have 2 identical GRUB entries for Ubuntu in the boot menu, but other than that, a flawless install. Thanks nezassal!

[plstanton]

Thank you for your valuable guidance on multi-booting with MeeGo. I used your instructions (including those from Binbash) to set up triple booting of Win 7, UNR 10.04 and MeeGo 1.0 on my MSI Wind L1350. Everything works fine and smoothly. Grub 2 on UNR picks up MeeGo flawlessly. Despite the warnings, I like to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg to get a cleaner boot menu. You can comment out the unwanted "menuitems", rename the rest to something more descriptive of your actual setup, and reorder them using the numbering scheme in /etc/grub.d.

[mechanic]

This is a bit confusing - on another thread we are told that Meego needs primary partitions, here we are told that logical partitions will do (as is the case with Linux).

And the OP mixed up logical and extended partitions.