On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Andreas wrote:
I'd like to know how I can have a single /boot partition and just one grub to start OpenSUSE X and X-1, ubuntu and Win2000.
OpenSUSE X would be the current release and OpenSUSE X-1 the one I used before. Usually I keep the last version when I updrade so I can look stuff up and have a working rescue system. Ubuntu would be to test their server release.
Those 3 should share a /boot partition.
I'd propose a different layout. Just create an extra partition for a primary bootloader with something like 100MB. Boot that bootloader from MBR and enter several chainloaders into menu.list that boot the respective systems root partitions. Any system should have its own bootloader installed into the root partition. For Win, it is just a chainloader anyways. This procedure has the advantage, that you still can update the kernel of each respective linux version without touching the primary grub bootloader. ------------ |primary | --------- |bootloader|----------|Windows| ----------- | --------- | | ------------ |----|Bootloader| | |X0 | | ------------ | | ------------ |----|Bootloader| | |X1 | | ------------ | | ------------ |----|Bootloader| | |ubuntu | | ------------ ...... You would have to go through two different bootloaders at boot time, but this is much easier than updating the kernel for different distributions in a single partition (especially if those may use different device names like sda and hda for the same disks). Berthold -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Berthold Gunreben SUSE Linux GmbH -- Dokumentation mailto:bg@suse.de Maxfeldstr. 5 http://www.suse.de/ D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org