You don't have to run grub, the way you did LILO in order to register a change. Just edit the grub.conf file. You can put as many OS's as you like in Grub, including multiple versions of the same OS, but the grub.conf entries for Windows requires a different setup than others, since you have to chainload into the Windows boot process.
Mixing CentOS and Ubuntu is definitely not a problem, as long as you don't try to share the binaries between them. Differences in things like what's where in the /etc directory tree mean that the binary versions of CentOS and Ubuntu won't be looking in the same place for the resources, and that's enough cause for trouble right there. On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 13:58 -0400, Bob Swanson wrote: > Well, I slapped a new, larger drive in my laptop, and installed CentOS 5 in > the second partition. It co-exists nicely with That Other OS that's > required for most of my daily work. What I'd like to do is alter the config > file so that Vis... er, the other one, is first in the boot list so I don't > have to hit the down arrow several times while the laptop is powering up. > > Looks like there are multiple versions of GRUB, mine identifies as .97. Do > I have to boot into Centos in order to alter the loader? I've see the > commands that are executed for Vista (there, I said it), but I haven't seen > where to move Vista to the top of the list. Any pointers? > > Also, I -tried- to install Ubuntu as well as Centos on the new drive, but > they appeared not to care for each other. Anyone got 3 OSes loaded on a > single drive? (I also tried loading/booting Ubuntu from an external USB > drive -- no luck. Well, luck, but all bad.) > > Thanks for any pointers about the obvious stuff I'm missing. > > --B > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml
