Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:39:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> On Sb, 15 sep 12, 13:40:16, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote:
>> 
>> Note, that suggested above approach requires one edited by hand
>> grub,cfg along with automatically generated others.
> 
> I've solved this by having one grub in the MBR and installing each grub
> in the corresponding first sector of the partition. Not recommended by
> grub, but it works.

So each system-specific grub would. presumably, boot just that system.
And what would the MBR grub do?  Chainload a boot-time choice the others?

And how would these be protected against the script that updates the grub 
configuration when the package-manager installs a new kernel during a 
routine upgrade?

> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

-- hendrik