Dual boot with PCLinux???

[Steve]

On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:25:27 +0100, Henry Dubb <henry.dubb at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:01:07 +0100, Henry Dubb <henry.dubb at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >> But upon boot I am asked what I want to boot from. There is a list
>> >> starting with Ubuntu 10.04.
>> >> At the bottom there are THREE options for PCLinuxOS:
>> >> linux-on
>> >> linux-nonfb
>> >> failsafe
>> >>
>> >> **ALL** options lead to the same error message:
>> >> Kernel panic (wonderful expression!) - not syncing
>> >> VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)
>> >>
>> >
>> > I would use gpart and format drive into four partitions.
>> >
>> > partition 1 10.04 (10gb)
>> > partition 2 PC Linux (10gb)
>> > partition 3 /home
>> > partition 4 SWAP (small if over 1G of ram.
>> >
>> >
>> The problem with that arrangement is the shared /home, this can lead to
>> some starnge problems with conflicting configurations.  I keep /home  
>> with
>> the OS and just have a common data partition.
>>
>
> My data is all on externals. So home is mostly dropbox and settings. I  
> had a
> few minor issues with compiz but nothing major. Many more issues with  
> having
> to start at ground zero on each install. Makes it a hell of a lot easier
> than having to manually set up dropbox, chat, chrome, email etc... each
> install.  I have never had any major problems, which ones have you had?
>
Never had any major problems just minor conflicts in settings or config  
files in different folders on different distros.  I just like to keep  
settings for each distro separate so adjusting something in one doesn’t  
effect the other.


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