Installing Ubuntu a second time and /boot/grub/menu.lst

[Andreas Schildbach]

This is a feature request.

When installing a second Ubuntu installation on the same drive as a first Ubuntu
installation, currently if you use grub there seems to be no way around managing
the /dev/hda1 with the /dev/hda2 installation. This means that from now on your
/boot/grub/menu.lst on /dev/hda2 is responsible for the boot menu, whereas
before the second installation it was menu.lst on /dev/hda1.

I'd like to keep the first installation in control of menu.lst. Somehow Ubuntu
should detect that /dev/hda1 exists and add itself to /boot/grub/menu.lst there,
instead of transferring control to the new installation. If you, at some day,
format the partition with the second installation, you can still boot your
"master" installation.

[Martin Bergner (martin-bergner)]

Thanks for your comment. The changes you are requesting require more
discussion and should rather be done on an appropriate mailing list or
forum.

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/forums/ might be a good start.