[ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi

In desperation to access the internet via my BSNL / CDMA WLL phone i
reinstalled Ubuntu 7.10. I have left space for another Linux OS
(probably Kubuntu 8.10 - since i have that CD)

The following is my HD partitioning
/dev/sda8             6.5G  2.0G  4.2G  33% /  (ubuntu 7.10 root and home
/dev/sda6              92M   23M   64M  27% /boot
/dev/sda1              13G   12G  844M  94% /media/sda1 (Wince XP)
/dev/sda2             2.8G  759M  2.1G  27% /media/sda2 (VFAT Shared drive)
/dev/sda7              43G   30G   12G  73% /media/sda7 (/Home from my
previous install which i want to keep as my default home)
/dev/sda9             6.7G  2.2G  4.2G  35% /media/sda9 (space for new Linux OS)

Ok the main question is i tried to install a second Ubuntu with sda9
as /root and sda7 as /home and the sda6 was the /boot however Ubuntu
8.10 did not pick up the previously installed version of 7.10 and i
was left without my 7.10.

When the option came to partition i selected manual and did not select
the option for the 8.10 installtion to format the /boot (which i
assume needs to be the same as my older boot partition)

So what could be going wrong.

regards
ram