Re: GRUB2 MYway ;/

[Leslie S Satenstein]

Felix, you are right, it is multiboot, and if the installation program allowed you the option to do as you say, then there would be no problem. However, Ubuntu, Mint, did not allow me to choose other than the partition. No ability to not modify the mbr.  Nevertheless, thank you for the feedback.

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--- On Sun, 11/25/12, Felix Miata <address@hidden> wrote:

From: Felix Miata <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: GRUB2 MYway ;/
To: address@hidden
Date: Sunday, November 25, 2012, 12:49 PM

On 2012-11-25 08:21 (GMT-0800) upscope composed:

> I have dual boot system, the first installed is my
> production system. The other two drives have various other version constantly
> changing. Since Grub2 has worked perfectly with first installed I am looking
> for a way to keep it there.

1-Dual means exactly two. If you have more than one bootable OS, you do not have dual boot; you do have multiboot. Even if you do have dual boot, you still have multiboot, as multiboot means more than one bootable OS.

2-When installing additional distro, install its Grub to its /boot or /[1], after which boot the original to update master Grub to add stanza to chainload the addition. This way there is no need to disturb MBR or default boot behavior.

[1] This should be default behavior of every distro's installer when already exists any installed OS that is not to be overwritten by the new installation.
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