My computer

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sun Nov 18 14:37:30 UTC 2007


John Austin wrote:

>> > >> Notice f8 has already got a new kernel and it was properly added to
>> > >> grub. This would not happen if the above was just added to the main
>> > >> grub.conf.

>> > > Why not?
>> > > I don't see anything special about your setup.
>> > > Most people just have one grub.conf and this seems to work fine.

>> >     It works fine if you are not getting upgraded kernel's. I prefer to
>> > use this method because it is open ended. I can add more systems easy.

> It is neater to use chainloader +1 if you have several different installs
> 
> When you update the "chained" kernel the "chained" grub.conf is updated
> automatically. On one machine I have a "production" F7 and "development"
> F7 and F8s

Nobody has explained why it is "neater".
I have F7 on sda and F8 on sdb,
with a common /boot on sda2.
 
> I do not have to play with grub.conf on /dev/sda1

I don't have to "play" with grub.conf either.

I can imagine there might be a problem if there were two kernels
for different OS's with the same name,
but very few people are likely to meet this situation.








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