Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[ciosmuil@xxxxxxx (mark wilson)]

Thanks Tim, i'll keep this and Ole's messages for future reference.

Tim Duggan wrote:
> 
> Hi mark,
> 
> Tuesday, September 26, 2000, 12:11:49 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for your comments Ole;
> 
> > The one thing that worries me a little about putting all distros in the same
> > /boot partitin is, how do you prevent it being over-written during a new
> > installation?
> 
> I have a box with suse and debian which I set up much like Ole suggests.
> My /boot partition has subdirectories for each distro where the kernels
> live and each distro mounts it the same way (as /boot).
> During an install make sure you don't format the partition and the
> install should dump its kernel into /boot. So if I install RH, it will
> be the only kernel in /boot and I would move it (and whatever else
> necessary) to /boot/rh/. I do keep lilo.conf in a directory called
> /boot/lilo/ and the file /etc/lilo.conf is a link to it in each distro
> (as Ole mentioned). The only thing I've yet to automate is the kernel
> makefile to dump the appropriate kernel into the right directory. I have
> it done for SuSE, but haven't gotten around to doing it for Deb. Since I
> almost never do # make bzlilo I've been ok but I'm sure it'll bite me
> one day if I don't fix it (I know, it's so trivial I should do it and be
> done with it).:-)
> HTH
> 
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> Good luck,
>  Tim
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