[Bug 27206] Re: Installing Ubuntu a second time and /boot/grub/menu.lst

[sagar bhagwat]

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Installing Ubuntu a second time and /boot/grub/menu.lst

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This is a feature request.

  When installing a second Ubuntu installation on the same drive as a first Ubuntu
  installation, currently if you use grub there seems to be no way around managing
  the /dev/hda1 with the /dev/hda2 installation. This means that from now on your
  /boot/grub/menu.lst on /dev/hda2 is responsible for the boot menu, whereas
  before the second installation it was menu.lst on /dev/hda1.

  I'd like to keep the first installation in control of menu.lst. Somehow Ubuntu
  should detect that /dev/hda1 exists and add itself to /boot/grub/menu.lst there,
  instead of transferring control to the new installation. If you, at some day,
  format the partition with the second installation, you can still boot your
  "master" installation.

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