Installing 3 OS.
Glenn Holmer
gholmer at ameritech.net
Thu Nov 6 11:58:34 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:38 -0700, Mike Adolf wrote:
> I now have Ubuntu 8.04 and Vista dual boot on one internal drive. I also
> have a second internal drive on which I want to put Ubuntu 8.10 but I
> want to install it in such a way that my current grub does not know it
> is there. When I want to run 8.10 I would like to interrupt the boot
> process and reset the boot order to boot first off the second internal
> drive on which an independent grub knows nothing about the other two OS.
Why do you need to change the boot order to do this? Just install
8.10's GRUB to the boot sector of the partition /boot is located in,
then use "chainloader +1" from the "master" GRUB on the first drive.
That should give you the 8.10's GRUB menu when you select it.
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