Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 09:29 +0000, John Austin wrote: >> The chain loader approach is quite neat when playing with different >> installs. > > I've done that, too. But I really hate dual-boot systems, it's always a > compromise. I've only done it on three systems, that that I had already > paid for the other OS that came with it, and another that I wanted to do > some experimentation with (which usually gets abandoned after a week, or > so - I'm more interested in making use of the computer, not playing with > it). > One place where chainloading is nice is where you have a second install on a USB drive. You can chainload to the USB drive, after using the map command to change the BIOS mapping of the USB drive to drive 80 (hd0). That way, you can boot to the USB drive from the Grub menu. It works well when you have the boot order locked down on the machine and have a password on the USB boot menu entry. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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