Did 6.06 LTS install to hda kill my 5.10 data on hdb?

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On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 08:13 +0100, pasdar1 wrote:
> Hello,
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> I just ran into the same problem - there must be away around it. 
> anyone?
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> pasdar1
> 

Yes, there is.  Unfortunately I had to find it myself.  Here's what I
did:
1)  RTFM (yuck!) about GRUB. 
2)  examined and compared the /boot/grub/menu.lst on the first partition
of both drives.
3)  Backed up the /boot/grub/menu.lst of the new Ubuntu install. DO THIS
FIRST!!
4)  commented out the "hiddenmenu" option in /boot/grub/menu.lst of the
new Ubuntu install. 
5) cut and pasted the sections showing the regular and rescue boot
entries from the /boot/grub/menu.lst of the old Ubuntu install
to /boot/grub/menu.lst of the new Ubuntu install. 
6) edited the timeout interval in /boot/grub/menu.lst of the new Ubuntu
install to read 10, not 3, so you can actually have time to read the
menu on bootup. 
7) saved the changed /boot/grub/menu.lst of the new Ubuntu install.
8) rebooted. (Did you back up the original version first?)
9) the menu appeared, letting me choose which installation to start up,
new or old. Yes, everything was still there in the old installation.
Whew!

I did not need to mess around with LVM at all. 

Try it. It (should) work. But RTFM first, be careful, and remember, I
might have forgotten a step or two. BUt I don't think so.