Well Hello Everyone !! I have used most of the major Linux Distributions and the various offshoots, with the exception of Gentoo Linux and Slackware Linux. My skills in Linux are, so far, not that advanced. So, I guess that you could call me an intermediate Linux user.

I have a Lenovo Desktop PC running Windows 10. I have a few other pc's which I use to "play" with Linux. My wife is not too happy when I break our Windows PC.

One of my other pc's is an old ASUS Essentio CG5270 Desktop PC. It has a Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2.50 GHz Quad-Core processor. It is old, big and kind of ugly, but it is a workhorse that runs well for me. I had a very, what may seem strange, dual boot configuration on this PC. I was trying to install Fedora 26 Design Suite, and I kept getting errors. So, put in another hard drive and I went about to install deepin Linux. To my surprise, when I restarted my pc, I had a choice of either OS.

Then one day I unplugged the power cable to one of my two hard drives to see which OS was on what hard drive. Doing this I broke my dual boot. So, my question to LQ was to be "How do I setup dual boot of two Linux OS's using two hard drives for each OS. My dual boot was broken until Fedora 27 came out and I installed Fedora 27 Design Suite and I answered my own LQ question. Now it seems as though Fedora setup and runs GRUB that gives me a choice of either OS. Before deepin setup and ran GRUB which was a nicer looking OS choice, and I may later on install a new version of deepin, handing GRUB control back to deepin.

These two Linux OS's running dual boot may seem strange, but on the surface, or desktop at least, are very alike.

So, if you want to dual boot two very strange Linux bedfellows, the consider using two hard drives where each OS has it's own hard drive.

Greetings dlfetters48.

Hi dlfetters48 and welcome to LQ!

For some, tinkering is part of the game.