I just joined to say thanks for your excellent and detailed description of how to install multiple OS's on a single drive.

Been on Ubuntu about 6 months (first Linux distro) and I agree completely with your observation of how Linux seems to logically and transparently reveal its inner workings rather than obscure them (as the proprietary OS's do) and I am completely in awe of the many programmers from around the world who have made this project work.

I needed to be able to install a few other distro's just to use their special features and options (like UbuntuStudio with it's low latency kernel, PCLinuxOS, Fedora, etc...Virtual Box has it's limits, hence my research on installing GRUB independently which brought me to this thread.

Thank you.

Dell