Booting Parrot-home from a Dual-booting Hard Disk

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Hi,
I wish to install Parrot-Home OS on one of the vacant logical drives in my Dell laptop’s hard disk on which Windows 10 and Leap 15.2 are already working fine in dual mode. If I install Parrot-Home on the vacant logical drive, will my present Grub2 list and boot it or will it be written over?
Thanks & Regards
RSP2

Hi All,
I am working on Dell Inspiron Laptop on which I have one vacant partition inside the extended partition. On the rest of the computer, I have Windows 10 and OpenSUSE LEAP 15.2 in dual-boot mode. I want to try out Parrot-Home which I have downloaded in ‘version 4.11 amd 64’ and have written the ‘.iso’ file to a DVD, I have checked the ‘LIVE’ version from the DVD and I have liked its light and easy character to work with. If I use it more after installing it on the vacant partition and if I like it, I may adopt it instead of LEAP 15.2.
The present BOOTLOADER is also GRUB 2 and it is working fine booting whichever OS I wish to boot.

I have taken the precaution to keep ‘/home’ on a separate partition within the extended partition and when I install Parrot-Home, it shal use the same ‘/home’.

I want to ask the question: " If and when I install PARROT_HOME 4.11 amd on the vacant logical drive will the GRUB 2 with the Parrot OS still boot all my disks including Windows and Leap?"
Answers shall be most welcome.

Thanks & Regards,

RSP

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