[Advise] Natty upgrades

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Assuming that Natty features no bugs with doing this. I remember at
least one release that was incapable of installing grub to a custom
partition, and installed to mbr anyways.
Liviu


> Regards - Goh Lip
>
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