On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 3:21 PM o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:02 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > >> There are 20+ partitions on the hard disk so both systems have > everything > >> separate except /boot and /efi (whatever that partition is called). > > > > so boot is shared? if so, eek. apt-get update on one will throw out > > kernels still expected by the other. and similar ugly contention for > > maintaining grub. this would explain why grub couldn't find the other > OS. > > OK that's why I've not been able to get this working! > > >> advises that users do not directly edit grub.conf, and use their own > >> "discovery" and mangement > >> of GRUB scripts. > >> > >> But I always tweak the grub.conf myself. > > > > grub.conf is regenerated, and your mods lost, whenever a new kernel is > > installed. i know, i hated it when i first started learning grub2. your > > mods belong in /etc/default/grub and /etc/grub.d/40_custom. copy > 40_custom > > to 07_custom and stuff in there will precede, and thus be what boots by > > default. put in there entries which boot via the kernel and initrd in /, > > those softlinks are updated whenever a new kernel is installed. then > either > > regenerate grub.conf, or i confess i then edit the same mods into > grub.conf > > as well, it's just plain far quicker. > > > > also if you're interested in how to boot multiple installs all from the > same > > partition, just ask. > > Bingo - -- - I've been looking for this and can't find any guides nor > ideas - - - > so - - - please? (Supplicatory posture entered! (grin!)) > > Dee just tripped across this, looks like i never answered? it's here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/441385/98978 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20210604/edc80bce/attachment.htm>