On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:31:13 -0500 (EST), Matteo Riva wrote:
>> I have a squeeze system installed and I wanted to install a debian
>> lenny in another partition and I was wondering if there could be
>> issues with the bootloader. Does lenny use grub2 now?
>> If not, will there be conflicts with the two versions?
>
> Grub2 should be able to boot both Squeeze (2.6.32) and Lenny (2.6.26) kernels.
> But putting them in separate partitions is another matter. I've never tried
> booting two completely separate Linux systems in different partitions from
> the same boot loader before. It seems like it should be possible, but
> I've never tried it.
It is possible. With Grub. In fact the most bootable operating
systems ("environments" in the case of micros~1 window~1) ever
installed on a single PC was created exactly that way. They got more
than 150 separate bootable partitions on (IIRC) four drives.
-- Lee
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