Tony Nelson wrote: > At 7:25 PM -0400 7/20/06, Jim Cornette wrote: > >> It is probably possible to boot both installations from the same boot >> partition and let the root filesystem be referenced to match the >> particular installation. I think it would be a mess during updates to >> the kernel though. > > I do that and have no trouble (FC3 on LogVol00, FC5 on LogVol02). OK, the > FC5 installer did remove all my other kernels, but I'd made a backup so it > was easily fixed. Yum updates don't seem to have any problem. > Tony, In your setup, do FC3 and FC5 share any kernels, or do they have different kernels and initrd images? If it is the later, then I would not expect problems. I am not sure, but I would expect problems if you tried to use the same initrd image with 2 different LVM groups. Maybe you could try booting FC3 using a FC5 kernel, but changing the LVM group in Grub, and see what group gets used during boot. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
