[solved] Dual booting two GNU/linux

almandin · 2016-08-19 21:48:49

Hi there,

I won't ask for any help in this topic but only for info as I'm curious.
I wanted to know the correct way to create a dual boot with two linux, speaking about partitioning scheme.
What is the good practice when installing such a dual boot ?

I don't understand if each linux needs its own /boot partition. When installing grub, you install it for the whole HD or related to one /boot partition ? so you just install it once, or is it related to the /boot partition ?

thank you very much by advance, I want to understand

Last edited by almandin (2016-08-19 22:42:42)

jasonwryan · 2016-08-19 21:50:31

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Dual-booting

almandin · 2016-08-19 21:53:58

thx, duckduckgo should have lead me to this, so you install grub in one specific /boot once, install the other distro, updated the grub custom cfg file manually and run the grub mkconfig command is that right ? so that you only need one single /boot partition ?

jasonwryan · 2016-08-19 22:02:02

Yep. Same using other boot {loaders,managers}.

almandin · 2016-08-19 22:06:54

ok cheers, arch community is the best, topic closed, sorry not to found the answer before on the internet !

jasonwryan · 2016-08-19 22:07:48

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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[solved] Dual booting two GNU/linux

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