[sclug] dual Grub issue

[Alex Butcher]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Neil Haughton wrote:

> Can anyone advise me on a grub problem?

[snip]

> So I thought I'd be clever and copy the Ubuntu stanza from the corresponding 
> Ubuntu /boot/grub/menu.lst to the Mandriva one (as root). That worked okay in 
> the sense that I now have a  boot menu that has an Ubuntu entry, but it 
> doesn't boot Ubuntu (the syntax is noticably differently from the other 
> stanzas in the Mandriva file). The two versions of grub must be different, I 
> guess. I hacked about with it, somewhat in the dark, but I can't get it to 
> boot Ubuntu.

I'm pretty sure the only way you'll get this working reliably is to have a
/boot partition that's *shared* by both Mandriva and Ubuntu. You'll also
have to hope that they don't use the same filenames for stuff, or you'll
need to maintain grub's config files manually.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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