I'm installing Tribe 6 into partition 1 of a three boot system.  Another
partition has a running Tribe 5 in case Tribe 6 has a problem, and also
has master copy of saved files.

UUID culprits:  Install to a partition requires formatting that partition.  
Format changes the UUID, example Gutsy Tribe 6 install into sda1 of a three 
boot system:
Before install 
/dev/sda1: UUID="9e6ffe2f-67d9-4c74-8d47-0f17044d1fb1" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3" 
After install
/dev/sda1: UUID="f23f7c06-5228-4b6e-8103-0adbc524f920" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3"

Further muddying the water, Install puts the UUID's of all three
partitions in fstab.

Now when I go back to boot the Tribe 5 in the other partition, boot
fails because its fsck tries to do a file systems check on a UUID that
no longer exists.

Now Install is smart enough to recognize another Ubuntu and wants to
know if I want to model things from it, like bookmarks.  Why isn't it
smart enough to know the fstab in the other Ubuntu is going to be wrong
now, since it points to the old UUID not the new UUID that Install just
created?

Where in the Ubuntu instructions or in Install does it then say,
"formatting this partition changes the UUID so you have to manually edit
any other fstab's to match, otherwise the other Ubuntu stops when it is
booted"?

By the way, multi boot is the way to go, when trying out new distro's or
new builds so there is an old partition that works in case the new one
doesn't.  Example on this system Tribes 1 & 2 did, Tribe 4 wouldn't
install and botched up the partition, but I had a partition with Tribe 2
to fall back on.

Jerry

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