[Liverpool] Grub and chainloader

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:39:13 +0000, tony burrows wrote:

> On Tuesday Neil mentioned the idea of a partition which could have 
> different distros in at different times and chainload to boot them. 
> 
> As far as I understand it you set grub to be at the start of the 
> partition instead of the mbr and then can use your main grub and 
> chainload.  This means you don't have to reconfigure the grub menu each 
> time you try a new distro.
> 
> But how do you make sure this happens?  I've only tried it once so far, 
> with an astounding lack of success.

Do you have a Windows entry in your GRUB menu? It's exactly the same as
that. It has been a while since I did this, but it always worked
perfectly. It is something along the lines of

Title Some other distro
root (hdx,y) # remember that GRUB counts devices properly, unlike Linux :)
chainloader +1


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