At 8:08 PM -0500 7/20/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >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. They don't share kernels or initrd images or grub stanzas. I tried booting FC5 with FC3 kernels. I don't quite remember what worked and what didn't, though it was rather unsatisfactory all around. SELinux was very unhappy -- I had to disable it to get anywhere and do a relabel afterward, so I'm not eager to try again. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
