[SLL] Try with Multi-Ubuntu Install quashes first Ubuntu Boot.

[Xeno Campanoli]

I tried again this weekend to install multiple Ubuntus on my laptop:

1.	First I installed garden variety Gutsy with a special 1GB /boot
partition and a /home directory partion.  That worked and I could log in
fine.

2.	Then I Installed Edubuntu with root on a separate partion reusing the
/home partition, but not utilizing, or at least not specifying the /boot
partion from the first install at all.  I also reused the /home/xeno
user information from Ubuntu in Edubuntu using the GUI install tool that
is supposed to do that.

I ended up with apparently two separate problems:

	i.	The first install won't naturally boot in a normal fashion anymore,
but freezes at some point in the startup process.  If I <ctrl><alt><del>
<esc> or perhaps one of the two I then can get a login.
	ii.	Then, when I get the login, I find I cannot log into my home
directory is no longer accessible:

	Your home directory is listed as: '/home/xeno' but it does
	not appear to exist.  Do you want to log in with the / (root)
	directory as your home directory?...

Then I get a couple other diagnostic steps which basically still leave
me not being able to log in.

I know I can hack this, but the point is it should work without so much
hacking.  A lot of folks out there are going to want say Edubuntu, and
Kubuntu or some such combination, and it makes more sense if they
actually work naturally.

I wonder if anyone has suggestions.  It appears part of my solution may,
for now, need to be to keep separate home directories, which kindof
stinks.

xc
-- 
The only sustainable organizing methods focus not on scale,
but on good design of the functional unit,
not on winning battles, but on preservation.