Re: multiboot fails -- debian + ubuntu

2011-09-22 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Tom H [110921 02:09]: >> Given the grub version, it's your Wheezy install that's controlling >> boot. > > Thank you for noticing this. My intent was to have stable (Squeeze) > controlling boot, because of the vagaries of testing. But

Re: multiboot fails -- debian + ubuntu

2011-09-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tom H [110921 02:09]: > Given the grub version, it's your Wheezy install that's controlling > boot. Thank you for noticing this. My intent was to have stable (Squeeze) controlling boot, because of the vagaries of testing. But this (Wheezy) may be better. > Why did you run "grub-install"?

Re: multiboot fails -- debian + ubuntu

2011-09-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I installed Debian stable (Squeeze) and Debian testing (Wheezy) on a > single drive (multi-boot), then I installed Ubuntu > 10.04.3-desktop-i386.  In addition to a partition for each OS, the > drive has a /boot partition and a swap part

multiboot fails -- debian + ubuntu

2011-09-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
I installed Debian stable (Squeeze) and Debian testing (Wheezy) on a single drive (multi-boot), then I installed Ubuntu 10.04.3-desktop-i386. In addition to a partition for each OS, the drive has a /boot partition and a swap partition. When installing Ubuntu, I UNchecked the "install boot loade