[TriLUG] Living with Grub 2

[Carl Crider]

 Brian, unfortunately I seem to have deleted a great bookmark on this.
However, this
post over at the #! forum mimics what I had to do on a test machine last
year. Hope
it helps.

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/17005/how-do-you-manage-multiple-distros-with-grub2/






On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at buadh-brath.com>wrote:

> Alan Porter and I exchanged a couple of e-mail messages yesterday,
> but I thought I would send this out to the group at large, and see
> who else had ideas to help me get along.  Of course, you are also
> free to say that I am crazy.
>
>
> I have a machine where I am ( have been ) installing multiple recent
> Linux distributions, side-by-side.
>
> Most of them are installing Grub 2, with its new, improved, dynamic
> configuration file. ( grub.cfg as opposed to grub.conf )
>
> Each of these distros installs its own kernel and initramfs.  Some of
> the kernels are the same, almost certainly all of the initramfs files
> are different.
>
> I have a single "sda1" partition, containing the boot information for
> all of the installations.
>
>
> For various reasons, this is NOT working well.  One installation in
> particular, did sort of a "one from column A and one from column B"
> collection, but ALL of them had the same Root, even though the label on
> each entry claimed otherwise.
>
>
> Does anybody have any bright ideas for allowing me to install multiple
> Linux distributions in a multi-boot configuration, under Grub 2,
> without having confusion and collisions between distros?
>
>
> Thank you,
> Brian
>
>
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