dual-boot attempt (crossposted to both fedora and kubuntu lists)

[Tony Nelson]

At 4:02 PM -0400 9/24/06, anthony baldwin wrote:
>Greetings.
>
>I am trying to make a dual boot with FC5 and Kubunut 6.06.1
>
>I installed FC 5 first on hda1, and it was good.
>then installed Kubunut on hda2, booted into kubu, and all seemed good, too.
>But then, attempt to reboot did not give me access to Fedora.
>So I edited /grug/menu.lst, and attempted to reboot, found the
>fedora entry and tried to boot it, and got a kernel panic.
>So I reinstalled the FC5, and, looked good, again (oddly, it seems
>to have just
>repaired the previous install, because what little data I had on the
>drive, and settings like wallpaper, were still in place)
>...But now I can´t boot kubuntu...
>Grub only has an empty entry for Kubu (no kernel and init paramanters, etc).
>So I mounted the kubu partition, cd-ed to /boot therein, and find
>nothing in there.
>It appears that when installing Fedora, it hosed the /boot of the
>kubu install when I told grub to include kubu.
>
>What do I have to do to get these two to play nice?

The FC5 installer deletes "old" kernels.  It is a "feature" of the 
installer; yum updates won't do any harm.  You should install Kubuntu 
again, back up its kernels and initrds and whatnot.  If necessary, 
install Fedora again, and then restore the Kubuntu stuff.
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