multiple ubuntu boots 7.10 installation
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
i installed 7.10 in a new partition on a laptop with 7.04 already installed. now i cannot boot 7.04 anymore....
ubuntu should include automatically the previous boots (as it does with windows!).
i use the following manual procedure, which could be automated as follows:
do not format/overwrite /boot if there is already the files necessary for booting an ubuntu,
but insert there the necessary new images and edit the grub menu.
do not reformat the partition in which the root goes (to avoid creating a new uuid, which would then have to go into the fstab of the previous installation - or provide a tool to fix an fstab automatically when booting)
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it is a good feeling to know that one has a second working ubuntu installation ...
now i start experimenting with 7.10
Ubuntu will include other Linux installations (including other Ubuntu ones) unless you format the partitions in which they reside. Did you format the root partition when you installed?