[Advise] Natty upgrades

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:40:43 +0800, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> 4. If you want to see how the upgrade will go, install 10.10 on a test
>> machine & upgrade that one first. This will avoid the test install
>> borking your existing grub et al & this can be pain if you don't know
>> your way around troubleshooting grub2 issues.
>
> Or.... set grub (of Natty) to its own partition (sdax) at installation and
> then boot up Maverick (or whatever OS set to mbr) and then do a "sudo
> update-grub" to include natty in its menu. If Natty borks, you still can
> still boot others.
>

Or install Natty's Grub in another HD (if available), forget it, and
set the boot disk (or Grub release) from bios to a fully tested and
reliable release like Mav. (BTW, my test Natty hasn't borked its
Grub... yet)

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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
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