[ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Hardeep Singh
<hardeep1singh_s60 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> ------- Original message -------
> From: Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
> To: ubuntu-in at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: 27.4.'09,  23:06
>
>> what you mean is i should not specify a new /boot and let the new
>> linux os install its boot stuff in the / itself and then this section
>> would call the older grub (or the older installed linux ) as a
>> chainloader.
>
> Well not exactly, everything is correct except that the older grub would call the '/' grub as a chainloader, you'd need to reconfigure the older grub to add the entry. I'm still a Terminal phobic newbie so don't know how to add it, so i used easybcd on my windows install to add grub as a chainloader in Vista bootloader.

Ok
The problem is - that when i install the second linux os (8.10) at one
stage in the installation it has where to install the grub , by
default it shows hdo(0), this is the same place where 7.10 (the older
existing linux has its boot) so i need to select the some other hdo
partition - the one where the new os will put its boot. Later i need
to edit the original grub (which should also be on the MBR) - the only
problem i have is how do i know which hdo(x) partition i need to put
the second grub on.

ram