Grub and two distros

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Jan 9 17:17:53 UTC 2009


Sure - but when you install kernel updates on one or the other, then
tend to trample the bootloader in mbr

Craig

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 17:12 +0000, Gustavo Eli wrote:
> Fedora is very likely to recognize the partition in the installation and
> add the grub, and to check the type of grub partitions have been
> installed.
> 
> Gustavo Eli Pelcastre H.
> 
> > 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 :-)
> >
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