On 07/23/2010 08:46 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/07/23 19:51 (GMT-0700) Lew Wolfgang composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
Setting one partition as /boot in more than one installed OS is an invitation for pain. Each OS will assume that partition is its duty to maintain. You'll likely find mkinitrd programs building initrds for kernels that were not installed by that OS, with quite unpredictable results. I've never found good reason to try this myself.
I've been doing it a bit differently. I want to be able to do a full install of a new OS while maintaining the option of booting back to the old one if/when things go sour.
You have me confused. Did I write something that made you think I ever do a full new install without having previous ready to fall back to? Unless my HD is rather new and I've not yet had the time to do more than one install, most of my disks have a whole bunch of previous installs to fall back to.
No, you didn't, Felix. I was just offering the way I've done it for years just using the default install boot settings and having multiple physical boot partitions.
e.g.: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/big31L04.txt (3 Linux, plus other; 2 HD, MD RAID1) http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/gx260L0c.txt (14 Linux, plus other; 1 HD) http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/m7ncdL0e.txt (13 Linux, plus other; 1 HD) http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/t2240L08.txt (9 Linux, plus other; 1 HD) http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/gx150L05.txt (13 Linux, plus other; 2 HD)
No HDs above have more than one partition that is ever mounted as /boot. Most never mount any partition on /boot. All Linux are bootable.
I use the default MBR for booting.
Grub on MBR in conjuction with non-Linux OS installations is an invitation to need to perform a boot loader repair from other than HD media. c.f. http://old-en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub#How_does_a_PC_boot_.2F_How_can_I_set_up... & http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/install-doz-after.html
I agree, I only install Linux. Any Windows installs go on a VM in my case. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org