[Advise] Natty upgrades

Goh Lip g.lip at gmx.com
Fri Apr 29 03:31:20 UTC 2011


On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:40:43 +0800, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 4. If you want to see how the upgrade will go, install 10.10 on a test
> machine & upgrade that one first. This will avoid the test install
> borking your existing grub et al & this can be pain if you don't know
> your way around troubleshooting grub2 issues.

Or.... set grub (of Natty) to its own partition (sdax) at installation and  
then boot up Maverick (or whatever OS set to mbr) and then do a "sudo  
update-grub" to include natty in its menu. If Natty borks, you still can  
still boot others.

Regards - Goh Lip





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