On Thursday 25 November 2004 12:27, Satish Balay wrote: >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) I'm doing this on one box here, works just fine. The only common partition is /boot, which is /dev/hda1. >> 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 I'm also doing that, but its also giving me problems because the BDI installs ext3 isn't comfortable with the FC3's version of ext3, so when I go to boot the BDI partition, its drops me to a shell to fsck the partition (But e2fsck can't check it claiming I need a newer version than 1.35 which AFAIK is current), but advises me that a ctl-d will continue the boot, which it then does without any further problems. I can boot FC3, and then the e2fsck (version 1.35 also) checks it just fine. If someone can fill me in on howto alleviate that, I'd appreciate it. >Hmm - 1 manual intervention at install time - but it might work :) > >Satish -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.29% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
