Fedora 8

[Karl Larsen]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 23:38 +1030, Tim wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 12:54 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>     
>>> Why don't you just have ONE boot partition?
>>> Surely that is the norm if one is running different systems. 
>>>       
>> I seem to recall someone saying that updating the kernel on one OS could
>> mess around with the other files in /boot, knobbling another OS, when
>> they all had their kernels in /boot.
>>     
>
> It doesn't.
> Anaconda (both in RHEL and Fedora) does clubber the existing grub.conf
> during the installation.
>
> But if you keep a copy of the previous grub.conf and merge with the
> newly installed on, it should work just fine.
>
> Updates only add/remove exact kernel versions and files (and the default
> option). They do not modify other entries.
>
> - Gilboa
>
>   
    With Fedora changing every 6 months, it is best to not allow 
anaconda to botch up your grub. And you CAN tell it not to. Then later I 
can set up grub as I want it :-)



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