multiboot F9 and F10 with a common /boot ?

[stan]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:35:33 -0500
> Peter Teuben <teuben at astro.umd.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Any issues? E.g. if you update, will the last one updated always make
>> itself the default boot?
> 
> Yep, that and other problems.
> 
> What I did was salvage a /boot partition from an old OS I was
> getting rid of and use it as a stand alone grub. I just have
> chainloader entries pointing to all the other partitions
> I want to be able to boot, and when I install in the other
> partitions, I tell it to install grub in the partition, not in
> the MBR of the hard disk.
> 
> So, I get one grub screen for all the chainloaders, and that
> boots into another grub screen for the OS I pick from the
> first screen. Each OS manages it's own boot directory, everyone
> plays nice together.
> 
I do the same thing except I use configfile instead of 
chainloader.  Works for linux.  e.g.

title Fedora 10 sata 1 boot 2
	root (hd2,1)
	configfile /grub/menu.lst