Dual booting 10.04 & 12.04
Jim Byrnes
jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Mon Dec 10 16:02:35 UTC 2012
On 12/09/2012 11:15 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> I want to start moving from 10.04 to 12.04 by doing a new install.
>> To avoid downtime and have a fallback position I decided to put
>> 12.04 on a new hard drive. So I put in the new hard drive and
>> swapped the cables from the 10.04 hard drive to the new one and
>> installed 12.04. I now realize that constantly swapping the cables
>> will be a PITA and completely forgot about dual booting.
>>
>> 1. Is there a way now to have them both plugged in and dual boot?
>
> With both drives installed it will boot one of them, whichever that is.
> When you login to that system, start a terminal and run the command
> sudo update-grub
This machine is setup to auto logon. Is that a problem?
>
> which should add an entry for the other system to the grub menu. Then
> you can select the wanted system at boot time from the grub menu. The
> only disadvantage is that you need to run the command above again each
> time you get a new kernel by an update of the other system.
As this is just a temp fix that should not be a problem. Thanks for
pointing that out as I would have been confused in the future when it
stopped working.
>
> Nils
Thanks, Jim
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