Grub and two distros

[Jim Cornette]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> I think I may have solved the mystery of my wireless problems - I'll report 
> back in a few hours when I'm more sure.  Meanwhile, I'm now about to reinstall 
> Fedora.  I'd like, if possible, to keep Linpus Lite, as I found that having 
> the easy interface on the EeePC was very useful when strangers were curious 
> about it.
> 
> Linpus appears to be using about 8GB, so I figure that if I shrink its 
> partition to 12GB that should be plenty for anything I'll ever need.  I'll 
> then do a custom install of Fedora.  I've not done a dual install like this 
> before (apart from windows dual-boot).  Can I expect that grub will recognise 
> and set up the Linpus installation, or am I likely to have to do some jiggery-
> pokery to get things going?  If there are any problems I want to know about 
> them before I start :-)
> 
> Anne
> 

The way I boot my other distros is to install one installation on the 
MBR for grub and then chainloading the other installations as is common 
with MS installs.
For Fedora, you can select where to install the bootloader in advanced 
options. Selecting each install to put grub in its boot partition on 
other than mbr allows all distros to be independent of the other during 
updates to each distribution.
Some install grub in the mbr and chainload all installations from the 
switchboard type of install. I never tried it that way but it sounds 
versatile.
As Craig stated the methods used should be available in the list archives.
Regards,
Jim Cornette
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