multiboot F9 and F10 with a common /boot ?

[Tom Horsley]

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.