Sticky GRUB problem: solved

[Frank McCormick]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:04:53 +0100
Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> Another approach is to put the boot loader of Edgy in sector zero of
> its root partition. You can then edit menu.lst in Dapper to add an
> entry that chain loads the boot loader of Edgy. Putting the entry
> outside the automatically updated bits of the menu will keep it there
> during upgrades etc.
> 
> Normal boot takes you to the Dapper boot menu, selecting the Edgy
> entry will put you into a grub menu for Edgy.
> 
> The two instances of Ubuntu stay completely independent then, and no
> re-partitioning!

  Sounds like that would work, but another Guru on this list suggested pointing the
Dapper entries in the Edgy menu.lst to the symlinks in the Dapper root which automatically
point to the latest Kernel. However because the Dapper menu.lst doesn't get updated during a Dapper Kernel upgrade
I still won't have the options of picking another Kernel on boot.

Thanks to all for then suggestions.