On 9/8/12 2:40 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/09/08 15:17 (GMT-0400) Jim Flanagan composed:
I'm going to install 12.2 on my box. I have 11.4 on it and want to keep that install. I have that set up with swap, /boot and /. I have a seperate partition set up and will let the 12.2 installer format it. My question is how do I handle /boot. I don't want to loose ability to boot to 11.4. Should I just let the installer take care of things, or set up a new /boot for the new install?
This is really a matter of personal preference, not "should". I set up a /boot partition on each new HD, but after the first Linux installation is complete, that partition is never mounted on /boot. Instead I mount it on /disks/boot and manage it's menu.lst myself by adding copies of stanzas from new installations and/or chainloader and/or configfile entries for them. After dismounting the master boot partition, which is a primary partition set active in the MBR (which itself contains standard DOS/BIOS-compatible code), from boot, all existing and new Linux installations get Grub installed only to the / partition.
Hi Felix, I kind of follow your post, but it is a little over my head. Would one option for me be on install setup to set /boot to the existing /boot partition, and / to the new partition? The install setup automatically selected my swap, but did not select /boot, nor my empty partition I intend for / on this install. Thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org