more than one distro

[mike]

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Rashkae wrote:
> mike wrote:
>> Ubuntu Hardy does not observe the bios settings on machines with IDE and
>> SATA drives. Difficulties occur if the SATA disk is set as the primary
>> active bootable disk. Ubuntu Hardy puts the IDE as /dev/sda and the SATA
>> as /dev/sdb. When you boot the machine having gone through the 7 steps
>> of the install process. If they are booted according to the bios
>> configuration problems occur. Because the order of the drives are
>> different to that of the installation environment.
>>
>>
>> The problem is that Ubuntu and Fedora are using the UUID definitions
>> in /etc/fstab. Which make it very difficult to trace where the problems
>> are to be found. The Ubuntu forums talk of a utility called vol_id buts
>> that's not any use when you need some kind of rescue disk to regain
>> access to the machine and drives. The fix is to use blkid, see man blkid
>> for details. Without any arguments blkid will print to stdout volume
>> ID's on the system. Which can be cross referenced with the /etc/fstab.
>> It might also be necessary to reinstall grub but not from the Ubuntu CD
>> because of this drive organisation problem.
>>
>>
>> The subject of UUID can be found on the Fedora and Ubuntu forums. Many
>> contributors have complained about the ugliness of these 32 bit codes as
>> partition identifiers. Any resizing or reorganisation of partitions will
>> cause users problems if their distribution uses UUID as the partition
>> identifiers.
>>
>>
>> I missed the advanced button on the seventh step which reinstalled grub.
>> So that's two reasons for thumbs down for Ubuntu. Therefore, anyone
>> installing Ubuntu on a system with another existing distribution, ensure
>> that you press the advanced button on the seventh step and select not to
>> install a boot loader.
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>
> I'm really not understanding the problem here....
>
> Linux kernel and Bios playing musical Hard drive device name is exactly
> why UUID system is used. and because Ubuntu uses UUID, the seemingly
> random changes to device name should have no effect on Ubuntu whatsoever!
>
> The only thing to keep in mind is to always install grub on the same
> drive as your /boot is located. If you have two boots on two drives,
> for a safety, install grub on each drive, then you can switch boot drive
> from the BIOS boot menu if needed in a pinch.
>
Now that is an idea the wording was a little wrong maybe as both
Ubuntu and fedora use UUID however the UUIDs are different for both
systems i am blming Ubuntu alone for the problem as infered in the post .
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