On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:14:26 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: > sharing the same /home (and /boot)? Sometimes different versions of things that store junk in your home directory in ~/.<whatever> files and directories can make incompatible changes in the contents of that hidden stuff, then when you boot back to the old version things don't all work right. Other times there are no problems at all, but you never know if it is gonna happen. I always avoid sharing /boot if I can help it, kernel updates will come along and change the order of things, messing with your grub.conf file. My technique is always to make a separate /boot (or just have one root partition that contains /boot as a subdir, but that won't work for LVM or ext4 stuff that grub doesn't understand). Anyway, when I install the 2nd system I'm careful to tell it to install grub in the boot partition, not the MBR of the disk, then in the grub.conf of the first system, I add a chainload directive to boot the 2nd, something like: title Fedora 12 Alpha x86_64 rootnoverify (hd0,8) chainloader +1 I've done that for so long now, I've got a standalone /boot partition with the associated fedora version long gone, and the grub.conf in there having nothing except chainloader entries :-). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
