[TriLUG] Living with Grub 2

[Brian McCullough]

Alan Porter and I exchanged a couple of e-mail messages yesterday, 
but I thought I would send this out to the group at large, and see 
who else had ideas to help me get along.  Of course, you are also 
free to say that I am crazy.


I have a machine where I am ( have been ) installing multiple recent 
Linux distributions, side-by-side.

Most of them are installing Grub 2, with its new, improved, dynamic
configuration file. ( grub.cfg as opposed to grub.conf )

Each of these distros installs its own kernel and initramfs.  Some of
the kernels are the same, almost certainly all of the initramfs files
are different.

I have a single "sda1" partition, containing the boot information for
all of the installations.


For various reasons, this is NOT working well.  One installation in
particular, did sort of a "one from column A and one from column B"
collection, but ALL of them had the same Root, even though the label on
each entry claimed otherwise.


Does anybody have any bright ideas for allowing me to install multiple
Linux distributions in a multi-boot configuration, under Grub 2,
without having confusion and collisions between distros?


Thank you,
Brian