Multibooting

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Paul Howarth wrote:

> Satish Balay wrote:
> > An alternative way to install - where no manual intervention is
> > required is to have a common '/boot' partition for all OSes - this way
> > there is also a common /boot/grub/grub.conf.
> > 
> > So, if you update FC3 kernel - the correct grub.conf is updated.
> > And if you update RHL9 kernel - the correct grub.conf is updated.
> 
> Wouldn't this cause problems:
> 
> 1. because there would have to be two "template" boot entries, one for each
> OS, and grubby might have trouble figuring out which one to use?

Nope - the 'root' parameter will be different for each OS. (and
different partitions on the disk. Only /boot - a separate patition is
common)

> 2. because FC3 might want to use SELinux labels, which RH9 wouldn't support?

Yeah - I don't know how selinux/ext3-changes would affect this.

> A similar approach I thought of, which would also have these problems, would
> be to mount the FC3 /boot partition on (say) /fc3boot and make the RH9
> /boot/grub/grub.conf a symlink to /fc3boot/grub/grub.conf

Hmm - 1 manual intervention at install time - but it might work :)

Satish