Running LVM to repartition HD question
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Jul 24 10:29:47 UTC 2006
Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
>> It's usually OK to share /boot between two different OS releases, but
>>
>> you may have problems if you share it between two instances of the
>> same
>> release, as there may be files of the same name from each
>> installation.
>> So if you upgrade your kernel in one instance, it may delete the
>> kernel
>> being used by the other instance.
>
> Could you please explain in more detail. TIA. I'll not test
> multi-boot with FC5_64 and FC5 32bit nor any version of FC. I'll test
> installing Knoppix on HD.
Suppose you have FC5 i386 and FC5 x86_64 sharing /boot. You update one
of them to the latest kernel, which is 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.
This puts the following files in /boot:
config-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5
initrd-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.img
System.map-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5
vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5
You then boot the other one and "yum update" that one. Guess what happens...
Paul.
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