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Boot GRUB2 to GRUB or GRUB2 on another disk

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Mar 15, 202610372 views
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I've got a couple of distributions installed, Gentoo with GRUB2, and openSUSE with some other version of GRUB. OpenSUSE manages it's kernel entries, and I don't want to have to update my main Gentoo GRUB2 config to copy changes after updating. Currently I hit F8 in the BIOS to select a different di…

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hd0 MBR

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Fix for: Boot GRUB2 to GRUB or GRUB2 on another disk

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Since I figured this out yesterday I may as well point the answer. To go from GRUB2 to another MBR you need to do the following That is booting my GRUB2 into GRUB managed by OpenSUSE. hd1 could be swapped for any other drive or partition. The drivem…

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