Bit of a problem

Tue Oct 22 22:58:02 UTC 2013

Well, multiple boot machine is something very nice but we must be careful
with all we do when we're installing the OSs.

There is a long time I don't install Fedora, but ubuntu can specify the
boot partition in the installation interface it uses now. I think Fedora
also give us a lot of facilities.

I don't know how you did your installation, but I use to create few
partitions in the HDD before install anything. I use a / partition where I
install each OS (about 20 GB, perhaps 10 GB will be enough for that). A
/home partition where I store all my information, the size will be as big
as our HDD let us create it. And a swap partition about the same size of my
RAM for hibernate and suspend the PC correctly, very useful for portable
PCs.

This way let us to have more than  linux SO installed and also change it or
upgrade it if necessary without loosing our data.

On the other hand, why you upgraded Ubuntu? The LTS release are very
comfortable for work, you can get a very stable and updated system for
years. Only if you have troubles with your hardware or if the LTS don't
allows you to explode a feature as you need or want, will be a good idea
upgrade it. But if it works, don't break one of the golden rules of the
Engineering: if it works, don't fix it.

Finally because the GRUB, exist the Supergrubdisk which allows you to fix
some common troubles with the GRUB and also you can change manually the
grub.conf file. There are a lot of tutorials in blogs, mainly in the Ubuntu
forums, you can find for do it. Once I had to do it.

Good luck

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