Installing 3 OS.

[Neil]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Mike Adolf <mlnx at mho.com> 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.
>
> How can this best be achieved?
>
> Mike
>
Hi Mike

First: Why do you wish to use another way beyond one Grub with entries
for Vi$ta, 8.04 and 8.10??

Second: What motherboard do you have? On my Asus I can simply press F8
(not sure) to go into the boot device selector menu thingy, and select
a different drive (without going into the BIOS). This may be a viable
backup plan for when Grub cannot activate another Grub easily, if your
mother board supports such a feature.
I assume you have a desktop system, so you can easily disconnect one
of the drives for installation (or the installer of 8.10 will "see"
there is another OS installed on the other disk and adjust grub
accordingly)

Hope it helps.

Neil


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