DUAL BOOT -- 6.10/7.04 Herd 4?

[Maurice Murphy]

Thanks, Myles.

As I replied to JF, I've decided to become a patient chicken hacker for now!

Maurice

Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> It is totally possible to dual boot anything. You should look into grub
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto>.  All you had to do is
> boot into 7.04 and edit the grub configure file to show that there is
> another bootable partition. If you need some more help I will be on
> #ubuntu-ca.
>
> Is there a GUI for editing grub?
>
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> Maurice Murphy wrote:
>   
>> Recently, I tried to set up a dual boot arrangement with my very stable 
>> 6.10 and the then new 7.04 Herd 2.  The installation of 7.04 appeared to 
>> go OK, allowing me to divide the available disk space, as in a normal 
>> dual boot with XP.  Unfortunately, when it came time to reboot, I found 
>> that grub only gave me the option of booting 7.04.  I could no longer 
>> access my wonderfully stable 6.10. - not a very happy situation, which 
>> required me to do a complete re-install of 6.10!  Fortunately, I had 
>> backed up almost all my data.
>>
>> Does anyone know, _for sure_, whether it is possible to set up a dual 
>> boot 6.10/7.04 Herd 4? 
>>
>> I really don't want to have to do another re-install 6.10 all over again!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Maurice
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