On 2009/01/24 19:33 (GMT+0100) Amedee Van Gasse composed:
Currently I'm running OpenSuse 11.1 ...
I would like to try 64bit Linux in a multiboot configuration, while still keeping my 32bit installation. I would make another LVM partition and share /boot, /home and swap. I could also run various other Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo are on my list).
I think I won't have a lot of troble seting this up, but there is one thing that worries me a bit: the /boot partition with the kernels and the grub config. 1 GiB is room enough for a lot of different kernels, but I'm worried that different Linux distributions have different ways of "automagically" configuring grub.
What are the pitfalls that I should watch out for?
I get around automagic disruption by starting with a DFSee CD, then a Knoppix CD, before any OS CD or DVD. With DFSee & Knoppix, I completely partition, and install Knoppix's Grub on the first primary. Only then do I install an OS. On my most recent installs, that was 11.0. I mount the real boot partition (hd0,0) on /disks/boot, leaving OS /boot as a part of each configured /, and manually configure menu.lst on (hd0,0) to either chainload to the installed OS's Grub, or directly load its kernel and initrd from its installed location, or copy from its installed location to (hd0,0) to boot them. You can see from https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463033 that had I not first installed Grub how and where I did that I probably wouldn't be booting anything at all. http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/Linux/big31L03.txt shows the partitioning I did to support shared swap, home and others, and separate / partitions for 11.0, 11.1 and Factory. More on multiboot: http://fm.no-ip.com/partitioningindex.html -- "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." Proverbs 22:6 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org