Dual-booting Haiku with your other OS

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@BlueSky

You install GRUB in the MBR (or the installer of your Linux distro does it for you, like in my case) and then you have to add the commands for chainloading Haiku to your GRUB config under Linux.

Personally, I go the other way: I have Linux install Grub in Linux’ partition and install Haiku’s Bootmanager in the MBR. No messing around with Grub config files, just Bootmanagers easy GUI.

It’s important to have Grub NOT in the MBR, or it may be wiped by future Linux updates.

See this thread and PulkoMandy’s sound advice in the first comment:

When Ubuntu updates keep wiping bootman

Hello fellow dual-booters, I have Ubuntu installed alongside several Haiku and data partitions, see: [image] Ubuntu lives in “Partition 1”, its swap in “Partition 5”, then follow various Haiku installations and data partitions. I use Haiku’s Bootman as boot manager, after grub2 stopped working for unknown reasons… Now every other time I boot into Ubuntu every couple of weeks, there’s some system update that keeps nuking the bootmanager, resulting in auto-booting into Ubuntu. Annoying. My wo…