[NTLUG:Discuss] questions about intalling Grub and MBR

[Leroy Tennison]

william jones wrote:
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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
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> 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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The third choice is to ***carefully*** pick the first boot loader and 
not allow any MBR overwriting.  BIG question with this is "Do you ever 
plan to remove one or more of the drives from this machine with the 
intent of booting it on a different host?"  If the answer is Yes then 
forget this option.