grub-install

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 07:52:16PM +0200, albi at scii.nl wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:26:13 +0100
>Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>
>> IIRC grub-install will only install grub it won't actually update the
>> menu file, that's where the information is about what OSs you have.
>
>correct, you do need to edit it manually and then run update-grub
>
>> You'll have to edit it manually to add the Mandriva system.
>
>you probably also want to copy the vmlinuz and initrd.img from your
>mandriva to your ubuntu /boot and edit ubuntu's grub menu.lst file
>according to that

I don't think that's such a good idea. That'll confuse things in case
the kernel is updated on the Mandriva side.

Grub will happily boot any image on any partition.

/M

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