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[Erik P. Olsen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> John Austin wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 12:45 +0000, Garry Harthill wrote:
>>  
>>> On 18/11/2007, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> Karl Larsen 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>>         Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>>>         Linux User
>>>>         #450462   http://counter.li.org.
>>>>
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>>>>       
>>> What the hell are you driveling on about?
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> With great caution I agree with Karl here !!!!
>>
>> 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
>>
>> I do not have to play with grub.conf on /dev/sda1
>>
>> title F7 pagham (2.6.23.1-10.fc7)
>>     root (hd0,0)
>>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-10.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/root_pagham 
>>     initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-10.fc7.img
>>
>> title F7 Indirect boot of harddisk
>>     root (hd0,4)
>>     chainloader +1
>>     
>> title F8 Indirect boot of fuerte
>>     root (hd0,5)
>>     chainloader +1   
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>    Thanks John, I may have learned the method from one of your messages :-)
> All I said ws I use it and it works fine.
> 
Maybe it's not politically correct but I am using the oldish Boot Manager from 
IBM and let it boot whatever OS I have on my system. All OSes are completely 
isolated from one another, so I don't see these grub/kernel problems at all.

-- 
Erik.