I have to maintain 2 distinct sets of machines:
1. Donated Windows machines at church using donated
applications which
I'll set up to dual boot Debian so we can migrate to a
single OS.
2. My personal machines
a. one must retain WindowsXP on sda1 with whatever version
of Debian
is current at church
b. one machine dedicated to being a "testbed". It will have
Debian Squeeze
on sda1 and unspecified test installs on logical partitions.
I've experienced crashes resulting in unbootable systems due to
messing up the latest install (GRUB dumps me to rescue prompt).
I think I can minimize my problems by forcing the GRUB2 menu to
have whatever OS is on sda1 be default.
Having read:
1. "managing a multiboot without stomping the toes of other
OSes" beginning at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2011-01/msg00017.html
2. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
3. "Disk Partitions, OS/2, & Multiboot FAQ"
http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/partitioningindex.html
I have the beginnings of a solution in mind.
MY QUESTION
Is there something else I should be reading in order to:
avoid known pitfalls
ask intelligent questions
Thank you.
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