On Oct 6, 2003, Mike Payst <linuxgruven@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun October 5 2003 8:02 pm, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
>> Please write up the steps and post.
> My goal was to try Fedora and not risk my existing OS installations
FWIW, what I do is similar but simpler. I don't bother to unplug
disks or anything like that, I just tell the installer to use a
different /boot and / partitions, tell it to install the boot load
sector in the first section of the partition, as opposed to in the
MBR, and I have a setting in my `stable' grub install (the one that
comes up by default) that chain-loads the unstable boot loader.
Something like this:
title Test release
root (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
The only minor inconvenience is that, in order to boot Fedora Core, I
have to go through two boot loaders, but with appropriate defaults, I
can just turn the machine on and go have some coffee :-) The
advantage is the zero maintenance cost: upgrades, installs, etc, don't
require me to go modifying the stable boot loader configuration in
any way.
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