sharing /boot beween FC1 and FC2
Chris Jones
jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Tue May 18 09:26:13 UTC 2004
shmuel siegel wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 11:33, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I want to upgrade my system to FC2, but since it took a long time to get
>>things going correctly in FC1 I want to dual boot both for a while
>>instead of upgrading only to discover things don't work, sharing /home
>>and a few data partitions. I already have a /boot partition for FC1 and
>>I am wondering if I can just point the FC2 install to this during
>>installation - will it add itself correctly to grub.conf, or will it
>>crash my FC1 boot options ? Is this just a bad idea ?
>>
>>cheers Chris
>>
>
> In my experience with the test releases, this has not been straight
> forward. I advise you to back up /boot, do the install, copy back the
> old vmlinuz, System.map, config and initrd files. Then hand merge the
> old grub.conf with the new grub.conf.
> But more importantly, you must use a different root partition, i.e. "/"
> , or you old system will become inoperable.
Sure, backing up /boot before is definitely a good idea and I was
planning on doing that. Also I was planning to install FC2 into its own
root partition, so "/" for FC1 and FC2 are completely seperate. I can
then share the /home partition plus a few others I have for data files.
So I guess in principle this should work, but I probably will have to
rebuild /boot by hand afterwards to get everything working..
cheers Chris
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