streamsanddragonflies
July 11th, 2008, 09:57 AM
Hi!
I've asked related questions and waited some time, since I want my first re-install of Ubuntu Studio to go smoothly hopefully...
I want to keep Gutsy for a while which is on my huge IDE drive that has a /boot /swap partition, data and a Suse variant as well. I have 11 Gigs left on a SCSI drive which is shared with XP. I also have another blank SCSI drive with almost 10 Gigs which I will put /home. Thanks to my bios settings, the IDE drive was seen as primary or Sda during Gutsy manual install and it planted the MBR on that drive and I put grub in the designated /boot partition, flagged it bootable and all my OS can load nicely.
But now I read that having gutsy and hardy on 2 drives can have the same IUD # or something and grub can get confused and worse try to run the new kernel with older version...?!
Should I worry, will having grub on the SDa IDE drive but Hardy on Sdb and Sdc drives create any problems? I have to back up windows again, that's for sure! I keep reading info but my scenario is so particular I can't figure out for sure what will work... Have to say, still greatly enjoying and learning with linux!
:confused: :lolflag:
I've asked related questions and waited some time, since I want my first re-install of Ubuntu Studio to go smoothly hopefully...
I want to keep Gutsy for a while which is on my huge IDE drive that has a /boot /swap partition, data and a Suse variant as well. I have 11 Gigs left on a SCSI drive which is shared with XP. I also have another blank SCSI drive with almost 10 Gigs which I will put /home. Thanks to my bios settings, the IDE drive was seen as primary or Sda during Gutsy manual install and it planted the MBR on that drive and I put grub in the designated /boot partition, flagged it bootable and all my OS can load nicely.
But now I read that having gutsy and hardy on 2 drives can have the same IUD # or something and grub can get confused and worse try to run the new kernel with older version...?!
Should I worry, will having grub on the SDa IDE drive but Hardy on Sdb and Sdc drives create any problems? I have to back up windows again, that's for sure! I keep reading info but my scenario is so particular I can't figure out for sure what will work... Have to say, still greatly enjoying and learning with linux!
:confused: :lolflag: