Greetings,

Lets say I have a bunch of partitions, one of which contains a working
linux installation that uses grub to boot. "linux1"

Now I install another linux2 on another partition.  In a friendly way,
it generates a new menu.lst for grub that allows booting either the
linux1 or linux2.  All is rosy until...

linux1 distro gets a kernel update, rewrites _its_ menu.lst in blissful
ignorance of linux2.  So linux1-updated-kernel doesn't appear on the
menu after reboot because the menu is the one on *linux2* partition.
It is necessary to copy the updates across by hand from linux1 to linux2

Now enter linux3, linux4... aagh.

Does anyone have a cunning way around this sort of bootloader conflict?

I'm thinking either having all the installations somehow maintain one
master menu.lst or have a master grub menu that offers a choice of the
menus of each installation.

--
Eliot

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