trouble booting FC5. Please help!

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:51 PM -0400 7/20/06, Jim Cornette wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
>> At 7:25 PM -0400 7/20/06, Jim Cornette wrote:
>>
>>> It is probably possible to boot both installations from the same boot
>>> partition and let the root filesystem be referenced to match the
>>> particular installation. I think it would be a mess during updates to
>>> the kernel though.
>>
>> I do that and have no trouble (FC3 on LogVol00, FC5 on LogVol02).  OK, the
>> FC5 installer did remove all my other kernels, but I'd made a backup so it
>> was easily fixed.  Yum updates don't seem to have any problem.

>Thanks for pointing out that it is possible to use the same boot
>partition between installs. I take it that when kernel rpms are removed
>from one installation, they only remove the entry related to the same
>version kernel.

I think that is the case, but I have disabled the "installonlyn" yum plugin
as I'd rather keep the old kernels as long as I have space.

>Additionally, the rpm database from each install only
>sees the kernels related to the installation and just carry on as if the
>entries were not in the grub files.

Yes.

>Thinking about it, once you mentioned the possibility, dual
>installations, using one /boot partition might not be that bad of an
>arrangement. I assumed the programs were "higher level intelligence" and
>assumed the program was more aware.
>I have to stop giving programs too much human awareness and think in
>bytes or read the source code. :-)
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