On Sb, 15 sep 12, 19:03:28, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:39:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > I've solved this by having one grub in the MBR and installing each grub > > in the corresponding first sector of the partition. Not recommended by > > grub, but it works. > > So each system-specific grub would. presumably, boot just that system. > And what would the MBR grub do? Chainload a boot-time choice the others?
Yes. > And how would these be protected against the script that updates the grub > configuration when the package-manager installs a new kernel during a > routine upgrade? 'dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' allows you to specify where grub will be installed/updated on upgrades. The MBR grub is updated by hand if needed. I put the squeeze grub there to reduce this to a minimum. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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