"Grub loading ...Error 18" - HD's not accessible any more. (Kubuntu Karmic/ WinXP)

[James Tappin]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:20:10 +0200
Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:

BR> > Understand, one small point, there is no need for more than 1 swap
BR> > partition however many OS there are.
BR> 
BR> OK, clear, good that you mention this.

Using one swap partition for multiple Linuxes can be problematic (and
this is related to a recent thread on the ubuntu list) *buntu and most
other distros refer to the swap partition by UUID -- and I've yet to
find an installer that doesn't insist on reformatting the swap
partition, thus changing the UUID and so disabling swap on the earlier
installs unless you edit /etc/fstab.

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