Grub and two distros

[Tim]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 10:17 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> Sure - but when you install kernel updates on one or the other, then
> tend to trample the bootloader in mbr

I haven't seen MBR issues, but I have seen /boot issues.  My suggestion
would be that each OS installation mounts their own /boot partition
as /boot, and none mount a separate grub boot partition used to decide
which OS boot to chainload.  That way updates should only affect
themselves.

MBR shouldn't be touched unless you're installing GRUB.  Updating a
kernel doesn't need to change anything in the MBR, but does need to
modify that installation's own grub.conf (or menu.lst) file.

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