more than one distro

[Phil Bieber]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:21 PM, mike <mike at mga.demon.co.uk> wrote:
<--snip-->

>  I missed the advanced button on the seventh step which reinstalled grub.
>  So that's two reasons for thumbs down for Ubuntu. Therefore, anyone
>  installing Ubuntu on a system with another existing distribution, ensure
>  that you press the advanced button on the seventh step and select not to
>  install a boot loader.
<--snip-->
Hi Mike!
I'm dual booting and have always installed the boot loader into the
MBR. I haven't had problems with that. Also, on my Dell notebook, the
recovery, media, and utility (advanced BIOS/diagnosing partition)
partitions were all correctly identified and were present in the boot
loader.
Also, you can check the UUIDs on your local machine (even from a live
cd!) by issuing the following command
ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid/
or the respective mounted directory when using a live cd.

Your first problem might be related to the PATA and SATA hdds in your
PC, I allways had either PATA or SATA. But blaming those UUIDs isn't
the answer. I've repartitioned myself and only had to edit the entry
for my swap space.

Cheerio

Phil Bieber
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