Fwd: Auckland and booting with two Linux Distros

paul marwick paul.marwick at virgin.net
Sun Oct 31 19:07:01 UTC 2004


In article <20041028115652.GC4533 at riva.ucam.org>,
Colin Watson <cjwatson at canonical.com> wrote:

> The Ubuntu installer should detect the Debian installation and set up a
> boot menu entry for it automatically. (This is a feature inherited from
> Debian.)

:) Pity it doesn't detect OS/2 Boot Manager. I tried a default install
on my test box and was less than entertained when Ubuntu failed to
detect OS/2 or the boot manager and overwrote the MBR with Grub. Not a
major problem, but a pain all the same...

paul.

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