[CentOS] Dual boot with 2 drives

Sat Aug 9 05:02:04 UTC 2014
Ted Miller <tedlists at sbcglobal.net>

On 07/31/2014 11:37 AM, Joseph Hesse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a laptop with 2 hard drives.  The first has Fedora 20 (no windows
> or anything else) and the second is unused.  I would like to install
> CentOS7 on the unused drive so I can dual boot with the choice of the 2
> OS's on the Grub menu.
> I am comfortable in partitioning drives and installing Linux
> distributions.  I am afraid I may mess up the MBR and/or set up Grub
> incorrectly so I lose everything.
>
> Please point me to some documentation to help me.
>
> Thank you,
> Joe

I see no answers to this, so I will tell you this: If you have a CD (or USB 
drive) with the Super Grub Disk from www.supergrubdisk.org, you will be 
able to get to your linux installations no matter how badly you mess up you 
MBR.  It is usually quite difficult to cut yourself off from an existing 
installation, because usually the new install process will find the old 
installation and include it on the new menu.

Ted Miller