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I'm currently running 12.04 on a single HDD. I have three current partitions: A swap, ext4 (main) and an ntfs storage partition.

I'd like to use a second HDD (internal) to dual/tri boot. I've read quite a bit about setting up chainloading and such, but everything seems to point to doing this on a clean install. If possible, I'd like to preserve my current OS and the partition table on the first HDD.

Could someone point me in the right direction? Any additional info you may need I'd be happy to provide.

Thanks in advance!

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Do not install GRUB or other bootloader in HDD2. After installing other Linux in HHD2, use sudo update-grub to update grub menu. GRUB should find the other installs and add them to the grub menu. – user68186 Nov 9 '12 at 15:49
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