Thursday, 22 August 2019

grub2 - What to consider when evaluating Windows MultiPoint Server 2011?


I want to test MultiPoint Server 2011. Currently, I have a parallel Win 7 / Ubuntu 10.04 installation with grub 2 as boot manager.



Can these two be used parallely to MultiPoint again using grub and what's the most frictionless procedure to get this setup correctly?





edit What I mean with frictionless: MultiPoint Server will certainly just like Windows 7 overwrite the MBR and thus make Grub2 unavailable. I just want to know whether there is something I can do before installation so that afterwards it is easier to restore grub then including MultiPoint, and how to restore Grub.


Also, what will happen to the Windows 7 installation? Can I include both Win 7 and MultiPoint server into the Grub menu?



Answer



I'll just quote pjc50's answer at unix.SE:



Some people have been able to get NTLDR to chain to grub: http://stringofthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/booting-linux-from-ntloader-windows-bootloader/


Although in practice it's easier to use a live CD. I usually do something like:


mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/somewhere # mount the linux partition
chroot /mnt/somewhere bash
mount /proc
grub-install /dev/sda2

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