[olug] Installing multiple linux distros...

[Jay Swackhamer]

The version of grub for centos wouldnt boot with the default UUID  
kernel lines from ubuntu. I didnt look further than that and just  
added the centos lines to the ubuntu conf.

That way kernel upgrades from ubuntu worked without tweaking, and the  
boot conf just needs to be copied from the cento /boot/grub/grub.conf  
after a kernel update.

The centos install was only an issue with new hardware support since  
the kernel revision is behind. You will manually have to update  
nic/audio/video drivers for centos if you have newer hardware (< about  
a year old).

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Quoting Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com>:

>> Centos 5.3 comes with grub.x86_64.0.97-13.2.  Out of curiosity, what
>> makes it obsolete/what feature is missing compared to Ubuntu's?
>
> I seem to recall reading that grub was the reason that the CentOS
> live CD won't let you install directly from the live CD.  Newer
> versions of grub allow this capability.
>
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