Re: quick hello

On 7/5/06, Christian Bewley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just wanted to give a quick hello to everyone. I also wanted to ask a
> quick question.... I have a drive that I would like to set up as a Linux
> drive and have several partitions on it to install different flavors of
> Linux. Here is what I have done so far...
>
> Drive 0 40 Gig WD Windows XP PRO (Grub installed) [master]
> Drive 1 40 Gig WD  Debian SID [slave]
>
> If format Drive 1 and partition it into 8 Gig partitions will this kill
> WinXP or is grub completely independent of my debian installation? (My
> guess is  that it is independent but I do not want to be sorry, so I ask.)

Grub has several parts.  One of them is in the master boot record of
the first drive, the rest of them are usually together in a grub
directory in /boot.  The part in the master boot record cannot work
without the other parts available to it.  So if say the master boot
record is on the first drive, and the rest of the stuff is on the
second drive, if you remove the second drive the system won't boot.
If you have multiple linux distro's installed the boot parameters for
each are all usually in the same grub menu.lst file.  I don't know how
to make them play nice about updating that file without trampling over
each other so I just edit it by hand.

So basically read the grub docs.
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