[Hampshire] Booting 3 distros.

2012-07-04 Thread Clive Woodfine
I have Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 on the first hard drive of my desktop machine. I thought I would try Fedora 17 so I installed it on the second hard drive and had it boot from that drives MBR not wanting to risk not being able to boot the other two. I thought Grubs os-prober on the first drive would

Re: [Hampshire] Booting 3 distros.

2012-07-04 Thread Simon Reap
On 04/07/12 11:16, Clive Woodfine wrote: I have Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 on the first hard drive of my desktop machine. I thought I would try Fedora 17 so I installed it on the second hard drive and had it boot from that drives MBR not wanting to risk not being able to boot the other two. I

Re: [Hampshire] Booting 3 distros.

2012-07-04 Thread Clive Woodfine
I had a problem where grub2 on Ubuntu woudln't find Centos installed on a separate partition. It turned out that Centos used LVM for its disks, but I hadn't used that on Ubuntu. As soon as I installed the LVM libraries on the Ubuntu (apt-get install liblvm2app, as far as I can remember),