[clue-tech] Dual booting between linux.

[Angelo Bertolli]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, David L. Anselmi<anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> 
>> So how about putting grub on both the MBR and on each partition's boot
>> sector?  Let each distro own its partition and then the MBR only has to
>> chain load one of those.
>>
>> Anyone done this and been happy with it?  Anyone have a better way?
> 
> I, too, would love to hear more about this. I've never tried putting
> grub in the partition boot sector - too chicken to experiment. How
> would this work with debian distros where the kernel update process
> updates the menu.conf? Will that work with grub info in the various
> partitions.
> 
> BTW, if anyone has great ideas, that would make a wonderful topic for
> a Clue presentation.
> 


I'm guessing the way it works is you'd have to manually install grub in
the MBR and just chain load each boot partition.  So you'd get first the
MBR grub screen, select the partition from there, and then you'd get
that distro's grub screen.


Angelo