Dual boot, but with two Linuxes

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Jan 26 23:29:55 UTC 2007


Duncan Lithgow wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:17 -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> 
>> 
>>    Anyone have experience with this?  It sounds easy, but I'm not
>> sanguine about it's outcome...
> My take on this problem is that GRUB is not a boot loader. GRUB is a
> kernel manager. A boot manager is what you want, I suggest you look at
> GAG.
> 
> Then make sure that GRUB is installed once for each Linux installation.
> 
Duncan is, however, wrong.  Grub is a perfectly good boot loader.  It can be
a kernel manager too, if you want.  Grub is a lot easier to install than
gag (because it's an Ubuntu package) and Duncan's been shown before how to
make it behave exactly like gag.
-- 
derek





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