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
