[olug] Installing multiple linux distros...

[adunlop]

> You could simply change the UUID entries to /dev/sda1 or whatever. But
> just using Ubuntu's grub also works.

Yep, that's kind of what I guessed.  Not really that big of a deal.

>> 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).


CentOS is the primary distro I use.  Aside from a glitchy network  
driver for the Realtek 8138/8139 integrated NIC on the AMD SB700/770  
chipsets I've not had to mess with drivers at all.  That driver really  
isn't CentOS's fault either.  It does run behind on kernel versions  
but hey, it's a server distro, stability and long-life wins.  You're  
always free to roll your own :)

Aaron

>
>
> -- T. J. Brumfield
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Jay  
> Swackhamer<Jay at reboottheuser.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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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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