* On 2020 27 Mar 04:20 -0500, kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends! > > I have a non-Debian distro installed on the hard drive so naturally it > already has grub. > > Is there a way I can install Debian on the same hard drive without > overwriting the existing grub?
Yes. As I recall, just simply skipping through the Grub steps in the installer should suffice. Then you'll need to boot the other distro and use its mechanism for updating Grub so that Debian is in its menu and you then can boot into Debian. Debian does include the osprobe feature to discover other installations and add them to the Grub menu controlled by Debian by default. Only caveat is that you need to decide which distro takes care of Grub and when something changes on the other, such as a kernel upgrade, boot into the controlling distro, update Grub, and then boot back into Debian. > Thank you for your time! YW - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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