[NTLUG:Discuss] questions about intalling Grub and MBR

[william jones]

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From: terry <trryhend at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] questions about intalling Grub and MBR


You have 2 logical choices:

1) Have the bootloader write to MBR of each separate drive as you add
new drives and install new OS's on subsequent drives.  (Modern
computers have BIOS options to designate [any] drive to boot to, and
that's what you'll do to select which OS to boot [in this case].)

2) Overwrite sda's MBR  with new grub installation with each new
install and just keep including boot instructions for previous
installations.

Choice #2 is best / easiest but the choice is yours.

Terry,

I wrote a long answer, covering several bad possibilities that might catch a newbie.  Yours is the best short answer submitted.
Linux allows many choices.  Unfortunately, like *nix, the wrong choice can cause self-destruction.

William L. Jones
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