[ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Hardeep Singh
<hardeep1singh_s60 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
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>> Ok earlier i have dual booted two Linux OS' and what i remember is
>> that the later Linux automatically picked up the earlier os and
>> replaced the grub loader incorporating the old, the winced and the new
>> in the same boot loader, which i am assuming is in /boot.
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> Not sure about what you did earlier but you can install grub in the boot sector of your / partition and then call it via your regular grub or vista bootloader that sits in your mbr. while installing Ubuntu, after entering all configuration, the last page has an advanced tab, there you can specify where to install the bootloader, just choose your install partition instead of your mbr.
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what you mean is i should not specify a new /boot and let the new
linux os install its boot stuff in the / itself and then this section
would call the older grub (or the older installed linux ) as a
chainloader.

ram