[NTLUG:Discuss] questions about intalling Grub and MBR

[Leroy Tennison]

Ed Leach wrote:
> If I have a distro with Grub on the MBR of /dev/sda and then I install a
> different distro on /dev/sdb and select to install Grub on the MBR, will
> it install to the MBR of /dev/sda or /dev/sdb?
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> If it installs to the MBR of /dev/sdb then I assume the machine will
> boot as before - finding Grub first in the MBR of /dev/sda.
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> Is this right?
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> Thanks,
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> Ed
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While you can have multiple GRUBs installed on multiple MBRs you will 
have to use the chainload option in whichever GRUB boots or maybe play 
games with active partitions (probably much worse than chainloading).  
Although there is no real easy way to have multiple OSes in a 
configuration having a single GRUB handle all of them seems to make 
things less confusing.  If you want to consider this route I did a 
presentation recently on multi-booting and posted the handout on the 
NTLUG Web site.  From the main menu select Articles followed by Multi-Boot.