I have installed on xp system first UBUNTU and then Fedora. By editing the menu.list I could get of Ubuntu I could get all 3 OS as boot time options. I have encountered other problems. 1. The present Kernel is ..19 while initially it is ..16. Earlier while booting I was getting only the splash screen and some times on it a line showing sda7 being checked, press escape to skip. Now I am getting at this time Ithe splash screen disappears and a message that boot files are being loaded. And goes on showing various files bdrivers etc being loaded and sometimes sd7 being checked without any option to skip. Is this due to new Kernel? 2. Some times while browsing with Firefox3 it freezes and I have to reboot. 3. Once it rebooted itself. 3. Fedora does a massive update. Does not give any option to include or exclude any file to update unlike Ubuntoo. 4. Now I want to load openSUSE inplace of Fedora. But after reading some comments about it has cold feet. 5. Which distribution is stable? mohan
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Mayank Rungta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember another query from Mohan is pending on me. I cudn't help with > > that problem unfortunately... > > I have done this successfully, though my preference is to install Fedora > and then Ubuntu as I understand the latter much better now! :) Infact, > ubuntu does identify Fedora installations if I am not mistaken. I had > tough time with CentOS and Fedora on the same machine - can't share > partitions b/n the two easily. > > Eitherways you need to modify the /boot/grub/menu.lst file of the final > OS. In your case it is Fedora. I am hoping you are aware of what > partition contains Ubuntu. You can identify from the output of df -h. > > Mount the root partition of Ubuntu and open > /Ubuntu_root_mount_point/boot/grub/menu.lst. You need to get the latest > kernel on ubuntu onto your fedora menu.lst in the format redhat expects > (you can use the latest fedora kernel for reference). > > Unfortunately you would need to do this each time Ubuntu releases a > kernel. Keep a back up of your last working menu.lst always! :) > > Hope this helps... > > -- > Have a nice day, > Mynk > > > Saifi Khan wrote: > > > > Anybody who has installed multiple Linux distros, please help > > Mr. V C Mohan with the issues he is facing. > > > > thanks > > Saifi. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 19:20:42 +0530 > > From: V.C.Mohan > > > > I am trying to install UBUNTU Hardy Heron and Fedora Sulfer as two > > other OS > > on my windows XP system. After UBUNTU, as the third os I tried Fedora. > The > > GRUB loader retained XP but possibly does not like UBUNTU. So I do not > > find > > any option to start it as boot option. Then I tried to reinstall UBUNTU > in > > its own space. It detected Fedora, asked whether I should import user > > settings, but then in GRUB I do not find Fedora. It appears Linux is > happy > > with XP but do not like other Linux systems. Is there a way to get the > > three > > systems visible at boot as options? > > > > mohan > > > > > > >
