Hi LQ folks
I have several partitions, each containing a different distro (Yes - I try them out!)
I have kept the same Grub boot-loader for more than a year.
Whenever I try out a new distro, I always choose
not to install a new GRUB. Instead, I just add the correct filename and partition for that distro's kernel to the
/boot/grub/menu.lst that the existing GRUB uses.
Twice recently, this has failed with the message about "wrong filename or filesystem type".
I also notice that some no longer refer to my EIDE drive as "hda" and the SATA drive as "sda". Instead, all drives are "sda, sdb, sdc", etc. Things get very tangled with Ubuntu and Debian installs because now, the drives are listed as "UUID_and_a_very_long_number_that_is_hard_to_use"
The /etc/fstab is no longer a clean and easy thing.
So am I doing something wrong? Have I been out in the country too long, and the rules have changed? I do not trust every passing distro to make its own version of a GRUB boot from "detecting" the existing systems, and I would like to keep on multibooting.
Thanks for any suggestions.