Re: Grub and two distros

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as stated, grub got it wrong, i had to do it right. grub has never correctly
setup other installs. i was hoping it might have been improved, but true as
every other version of grub, grub can not do what it should. one more reason
i have also said before no, and continue to, it stinks. only one good thing
about grub is that you can temporarily edit it during boot.

Gustavo Eli wrote:
> For that reason you have to know that operating systems you have
> installed, that partitions you have in your hard disk, and that partitions
> you have in your operating systems, you must know your system, sometimes
> grub it does not take into account many configurations and it is necessary
> to do it manually, for that reason he is recommendable to know the
> partitions well.
> 
> Gustavo Eli Pelcastre H.
> 
>> when i install fedora 10 on this box, already a quad boot, f10 thought it
>> was
>> only system. when i selected to install a start for another install, it
>> did
>> so. but true to form, it did not work. so i manually edited grub.conf and
>> set it up as i wanted and anaconda has never been able to do.
>>
>>
>> Gustavo Eli wrote:
>>> For that reason, it is necessary to keep the configurations from grub.
>>>
>>> Gustavo Eli Pelcastre H.
>>>
>>>> Sure - but when you install kernel updates on one or the other, then
>>>> tend to trample the bootloader in mbr
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 17:12 +0000, Gustavo Eli wrote:
>>>>> Fedora is very likely to recognize the partition in the installation
>>>>> and
>>>>> add the grub, and to check the type of grub partitions have been
>>>>> installed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gustavo Eli Pelcastre H.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I think I may have solved the mystery of my wireless problems - I'll
>>>>>> report
>>>>>> back in a few hours when I'm more sure.  Meanwhile, I'm now about to
>>>>>> reinstall
>>>>>> Fedora.  I'd like, if possible, to keep Linpus Lite, as I found that
>>>>>> having
>>>>>> the easy interface on the EeePC was very useful when strangers were
>>>>>> curious
>>>>>> about it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Linpus appears to be using about 8GB, so I figure that if I shrink
>>>>>> its
>>>>>> partition to 12GB that should be plenty for anything I'll ever need.
>>>>> I'll
>>>>>> then do a custom install of Fedora.  I've not done a dual install
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> before (apart from windows dual-boot).  Can I expect that grub will
>>>>>> recognise
>>>>>> and set up the Linpus installation, or am I likely to have to do some
>>>>>> jiggery-
>>>>>> pokery to get things going?  If there are any problems I want to know
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> them before I start :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anne
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>>
>> peace out.
>>
>> tc,hago.
>>
>> g
>> .
>>
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suggestions? pointers? links?

tia.

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peace out.

tc,hago.

g
.

****
in a free world without fences, who needs gates.
**
help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today
**
to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it;
to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it.
**
learn linux:
'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html
'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/
'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html
'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/
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