How To: booting another Grub from Grub

Published in www.debuntu.org - 15-03-2008

Chainloading an operating system allows grub to boot an opearating system's boot loader. This is commonly used to boot Windows for instance. I personnaly use it to be able to have my "production" system's grub on the MBR, and address other distros'grub install on their root partition. The advantage is that kernel updates are real easy to handle. Each testing distro modifying their own grub won't interfere with my main OS bootloader. This tutorial will explain how to configure grub's menu.lst from the main OS to boot other OSes bootloader through an example. read more