John Austin 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. > 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 Nobody has explained why it is "neater". I have F7 on sda and F8 on sdb, with a common /boot on sda2. > I do not have to play with grub.conf on /dev/sda1 I don't have to "play" with grub.conf either. I can imagine there might be a problem if there were two kernels for different OS's with the same name, but very few people are likely to meet this situation.
