Hi Finally some sucess
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Onkar Shinde <[email protected]> wrote: > You don't need to put the second grub on separate partition. You can > safely overwrite the first grub installation. > Tried this but then the second Linux OS disappears (rather its boot details) > If you still want to put second grub on separate partition then put it > on partition that contains '/' of second installation. So this is what it did First installed 8.10 which has a separate /boot /root and /home Then installed 7.10 in which there is only one partition /root - which includes its /boot however during the *installation* 7.10 asked me install bootloader - to which i said yes. However instead of allowing the default hd0 as the boot loader address i installed to hd0,7 which was the 7.10 /root partition (more on this later) So i rebooted and ofcourse 7.10 did not appear - but my 8.10 was alright - logged it and found the /boot/grub/menu.lst of 7.10 and picked up its main booting lines and inserted them as they were into the grub of 8.10. *Voila* now i can see all my 3 boot option (8.10, 7.10 and wince xp) , it also means i can choose to install many more distros , as long as i have enough space on my HD. ** The biggest problem i had was trying to figure out how my partition were mapped mean my hd appears as sda but the boot loader identifies my hd as hd0 . Further each partition has a different hd0 x number like sda1 = hd0, 0 sda2 = hd0, 1 etc once this got figure out it was easy to redirect installation of bootloader to the appropriate hd0 I used the following help site http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#A_Quick_Guide_to_Grubs_Numbering_System hope more people find this useful, since it makes multibooting Linux OS's quite quite easy ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
