On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:46:30PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > Any recommendations for the best way to organize a big > old disk chock full of different versions of linux so I > can boot different ones? > > For just a few linux versions, I've used a stand alone > grub and chainloaded different partitions which, in turn, > have their own grub. > > With enough different linux versions installed, I'll have to > use LVMs instead of extended partitions, and it occurs to me > that I have no idea if grub can be pointed at an LVM to > chainload the linux there (I certainly don't see anything in > the grub info file that mentions lvm or any syntax that > might be used to reference one). I do this - perhaps not gazillions, but 5 or 6 different versions of Linux + a Windows partition. /dev/sda1 Windows /dev/sda2 Shared Linux /boot /dev/sda3 Shared Linux swap /dev/sda4 Linux PV containing all Linux root fs's I use LVM for the Linux rootfs's, and I just have grub boot them directly. Is there a reason you want to chainload them (except for Windows of course)? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
