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Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions

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Le 11/06/2019 à 13:36, songbird a écrit :
> 
>    what i'm not sure of is if you need to bother with
> putting the grub bootloader on it so at the end
> where it asks you perhaps you can skip that step.

IMO installing GRUB can be desirable for two reasons.

1) Obviously, it allows the drive to boot by itself so that you can move 
it into another machine, or remove the current boot drive, or change the 
boot order.

The OP uses legacy boot, but be aware that this won't work the same with 
EFI boot : installing a second instance of a Debian system will 
overwrite the existing EFI boot entry "debian".

2) It creates a grub.cfg file which provides hints about kernel 
parameters and so on when running update-grub from another system.

Warning : you should disable os-prober when running update-grub on a 
non-boot system, otherwise it may happen that update-grub adds duplicate 
menu entries (sometimes hundreds !).

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Dual Boot Two Debian Versions "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-06-10 16:10 +0200
  Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-10 20:10 +0200
  Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-06-11 04:50 +0200
  Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-06-11 13:40 +0200
    Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-11 20:30 +0200
      Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-06-11 21:50 +0200
        Re: Dual Boot Two Debian Versions Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-12 21:20 +0200

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