On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:18, Jim Cornette wrote:
Grub can boot several installations. I boot 4 seperate installations within two hard disks. (one ms, three linux)
The best setups seem to be obtained from installing individual boot partition for each installation and installing the last installation into /MBR and add chainload instructions for each distribution. (advanced boot options)
How can i do that? Do i have to create a swap partition for each distro? What are chainload instructions?
Suppose you have three distros installed (in order):
DistA, with /boot installed on /dev/hda1 DistB, with /boot installed on /dev/hdb3 DistC, with /boot installed on /dev/hdb2
For DistA and DistB, install the bootloader on the first sector of the /boot partition for that distro (i.e. /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb3 respectively).
For DistC, install grub in the MBR and add (using the advanced boot options screen in the installer, or manually by editing /etc/grub.conf for DistC after boot):
DistA rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 DistB rootnoverify (hd1,2) chainloader +1
The DistA entry chain-loads DistA's bootloader from /dev/hda1 and the DistB entry chain-loads DistB's bootloader from /dev/hdb3.
Paul.
