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

[Onkar Shinde]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Hardeep Singh
> <hardeep1singh_s60 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>> ------- Original message -------
>> From: Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
>> To: ubuntu-in at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Sent: 27.4.'09,  23:06
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Well not exactly, everything is correct except that the older grub would call the '/' grub as a chainloader, you'd need to reconfigure the older grub to add the entry. I'm still a Terminal phobic newbie so don't know how to add it, so i used easybcd on my windows install to add grub as a chainloader in Vista bootloader.
>
> Ok
> The problem is - that when i install the second linux os (8.10) at one
> stage in the installation it has where to install the grub , by
> default it shows hdo(0), this is the same place where 7.10 (the older
> existing linux has its boot) so i need to select the some other hdo
> partition - the one where the new os will put its boot. Later i need
> to edit the original grub (which should also be on the MBR) - the only
> problem i have is how do i know which hdo(x) partition i need to put
> the second grub on.

You don't need to put the second grub on separate partition. You can
safely overwrite the first grub installation.

If you still want to put second grub on separate partition then put it
on partition that contains '/' of second installation.


Onkar