On 9 December 2010 14:15, Dr. Parthasarathy S <[email protected]> wrote: > I often experiment with multiple distros (for learning value), by > installing them on my machine side by side. I then get to use a > specific distro by selecting it through GRUB, at boot time. Is there > some way to by-pass GRUB altogether and boot a specific kernel > manually ? I need to do this, if GRUB gets messed up because of some > foolish act by me. In this case, the entire machine with all distros > becomes inaccessible for me and I need som way to enter the machine > and fix the problem. > > I would appreciate any clue or pointer. > > Thank you,
For learning and testing purposes you may use any virtualization software like Virtualbox to create virtual machines of distros you want to learn. All Virtual machines are stored in the form of files, so you don't need any extra harddisk or partition to test new distro. Also virtual machines runs parallel with host OS so you don't even need to restart your pc to test new distro. But virtual machines requires and consumes more memory as you are running more than one OS simultaneously :) -- Regards Vikas Mahajan Website-: http://vikasmahajan.wordpress.com -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
