EDIT: I tried this in Ubuntu and found that it won't work. So, please ignore my post.
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This is a temporary method for testing:
When in grub OS selection menu, select the Ubuntu grub entry and press 'e'. Now, select the line which looks like
kernel (hd0,6)/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hdb9 ro quiet splash splash=verbose. Again, press 'e'. Now you can edit this line. Add '2' or '3' at the end of the line so that it looks like
kernel (hd0,6)/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hdb9 ro quiet splash splash=verbose 2. Now press enter. Then press 'b' to start booting. If you boot into the command line mode as expected, you can make this permanent by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
To edit the file,
1. Launch terminal. Type
su and enter.
2. Now type
gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
3. Copy the Ubuntu entries in the file. There may be 3 to 6 lines for each OS. It begins with "title Ubuntu " and may end with either "initrd ...." or "boot" (I don't remmeber clearly.
4. Paste them after the last line in the file. Now add 2 or 3 as in the above method. Finally, it will look something like this (only the necessary portion of the file is shown here):
Quote:
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-11-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-11-generic root=/dev/hdb9 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.17-11-generic
quiet
savedefault
boot
title Microsoft Windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-11-generic
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-11-generic root=/dev/hdb9 ro quiet splash 2
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.17-11-generic
quiet
savedefault
boot
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Here, the values 2 and 3 indicates the runlevel. 3 means you will have netwroking support + everything available in 2.
I have tried this only on Mandriva. That's why I mentioned the temporary method first. If this didn't work for you, post back and wait for the experts. Sorry if I oversimplified this.