Installing Ubuntu 9.10 side by side (twice), on different hard disks

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Tue, 11/10/09, Ioannis Vranos <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr> wrote:

> From: Ioannis Vranos <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr>
> Subject: Installing Ubuntu 9.10 side by side (twice), on different hard disks
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 9:30 AM
> I have a system with 2 hard disks. I
> have installed Ubuntu 9.10 x64 on
> the first hard disk, and I want to have a second
> installation of it on
> the second hard disk.
> 
> 
> The problem is that when I install it on the second hard
> disk, it
> installs GRUB on the MBR of the first hard disk (erasing
> access to the
> Ubuntu 9.10 installation in the first hard disk), and does
> not install
> GRUB on the MBR of the second hard disk, where the
> installation takes
> place.
> 
> 
> How can I have two installations of Ubuntu on two separate
> hard disks
> with the equivalent two GRUB installations on the MBRs of
> the two hard
> disks?
> 
Don't know that you even need two MBR's but no expert here.  Curious, have you ran sudo update-grub after installing. Perhaps on both drives.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net


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> Thank you in advance,
> 
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