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Thanks for the advice. Larry Webb, I think I will try your suggestion. Before I do though, would this work and be easier?
1 - Install Fedora or Mint (or any other distro that uses Grub2) on /dev/sdb8. 2 - When asked where to install the bootloader, select /dev/sdb2. 3 - Let the installer create all the necessary boot files in /dev/sdb2. 4 - Once the installation is complete, the computer should boot up with a generic grub.cfg (containing the distro at minimum). 5 - Reinstall distro in step 1 a second time to the same location. Have it format the partition and select /dev/sdb8 this time when asked where to install the bootloader. 6 - Edit /dev/sdb2 grub.cfg file to point to /dev/sdb6, 7, 8, etc. 7 - Any time I update the kernel for any of the installed distro's, they should not touch /dev/sdb2 since their individual bootloaders are in their respective partitions. Would that be true? Thanks again everyone for the education. I truly appreciate it. |
I see that I did not submit my reply for a few hours. Sorry to repeat some of what you said Larry. That article is the exact reason I am trying this. Albeit, I only want about 10 distro's for now. Being new to Linux, though, makes it a bit of a challenge to say the least.
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3 . No a distro when installed will not install grub to a separate partition, just the mbr. 4 . No 7 . True The way I explained in my earlier post is the easiest way. |
Thanks Larry. In the process of writing the file now. I will let you know how it goes. I appreciate it.
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That took care of it Larry. Windows XP, Ubuntu and Fedora are all launching using the boot partition and chainloading. Now I need to install a few more distro's and update the grub.cfg file to point to them.
I appreciate the help you and everyone else have given me. I have a lot to learn and hope to be able to contribute to the group at some point in the near future. |
easyBCD may help
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OK, new problem. I installed OpenSUSE in /dev/sdb8 (next empty partition). During installation I told it to use /dev/sdb16 for /home (I am trying to use a common partition for all installations. Unlike Fedora and Ubuntu, OpenSUSE did not make it really clear where to set the boot partition. Or it did and I completely missed it. I thought I had set / for boot. Now, instead of Grub2 on /dev/sdb2 running at boot up, OpenSUSE on /dev/sdb8 appears to have taken over. Is there a way to reset my chainloading Grub2 installation on /dev/sdb2 as my MBR? Thanks in advance. Sorry for more newbie questions.
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sudo mkdir /mnt/sdb2 You are lucky I caught this. After marking a thread solved you need to start a new thread. After all this is a new problem. |
If after repairing your mbr you can not boot suse come back with a new thread.
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Solved again. Will open a new thread with future issues (which I am bound to have). Thanks again.
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