Dual boot with PCLinux???

[Henry Dubb]

>
> But upon boot I am asked what I want to boot from. There is a list
> starting with Ubuntu 10.04.
> At the bottom there are THREE options for PCLinuxOS:
> linux-on
> linux-nonfb
> failsafe
>
> **ALL** options lead to the same error message:
> Kernel panic (wonderful expression!) - not syncing
> VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)
>

I would use gpart and format drive into four partitions.

partition 1 10.04 (10gb)
partition 2 PC Linux (10gb)
partition 3 /home
partition 4 SWAP (small if over 1G of ram.


> I will probably spending the entire afternoon to reinstall the whole
> thing (again and again ...)
> So much for the "Linux simply works. Out of the box." The catch phrase
> found in almost book about Linux.
>
> Wish me luck ....
> >
> >
> >     But it says under disk space 31.1 GB free (out of 40). Does
> >     PCLinux use
> >     9 GB of space?
> >
> >
> > I'd reformat using Gpart in Ubuntu Live CD
> >
> > 10 GB 10.04
> > 10GB PC Linux
> > 20 GB /home (shared between os')
> > SWAP
> >
> >
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