Lion and Mavericks dual boot.

Hello everyone,
I have an rMBP with Mavericks its runs fine and i'd like to install Mavericks on my 2010 (white) Macbook as well.
The macbook currently runs 10.7 Lion and only has 2GB RAM, Mavericks will be even slower than 10.7.
Because of that reason and some others i'd like to dual boot 10.7 and 10.9 so my Lion partition remains.
I already created a partition for Mavericks but i have
a few questions and hope someone could anwser those..
1. Will Mavericks create a recovery partition ? and if so will it rewrite my old 10.7 ''Recovery Partition'' or will it create 2 seperate ones? (saw that in a vid)
2. If the installation of Mavericks fails will i still be able to boot to my current 10.7 partition?
Thanks in advance!

1. If you install them onto separate partitions, they'll each have their own recovery partition.
2. Yes.
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