[TriLUG] Living with Grub 2

[Brian McCullough]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:21:34AM -0400, Joseph S. Tate wrote:
> You may want to have a MBR Grub2 install that simply chainloads grub2
> on a boot partition (sda2 for example) unique to the other distro.
> You'll have an explosion of partitions, but with a good labeling
> scheme you should be able to keep track pretty well.  The partitions
> can be as small as you like so they don't eat space, and this way, no
> distro can clobber another.
> 
> Now that Virtual Machines can be run on a stock kernel with 4 yr old
> hardware, why dual boot anymore?  Just fire up a VM?

I did actually think about that, too, and with the problems I have had
with Grub 2, I am seriously considering it.  I just need to choose the
"master" installation.


Brian