dual boot test

bruce badouglas at gmail.com
Sat Dec 28 00:58:12 UTC 2013


Hi again Chris!

I owe you OJ/Beer/Pizza!

With regards to creating the 3 partitions, umm.. using the
Installation GUI, where does that happen? I can't seem to find it on
the Create Custom Layout Page. Am I looking at the wrong/right place?

thanks


On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 27, 2013, at 5:44 PM, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Chris..
>>
>>>>>>
>> I already gave you the proper grub.conf 2nd entry. That's what you got
>> wrong and why it won't boot. It's pointing to the wrong root which is
>> what I said from the beginning.
>> <<<
>>
>> Right, but I'm not sure what I need to correct in the Install GUI for
>> the 2nd OS Install process in order to match what you posted.
>
> If you point the two installers to two different primary partitions so they get separate /boot directories, you'll get to see their unique installer created grub.conf and you can see the differences.
>
>>
>> In particular, do I simply select the sda for the boot partition?
>
> No. You either need to point the installer to sda1 twice (once for each install), or you need to create three primary partitions: sda1 boot for install #1, sda2 will be LVM which both installs can use, and sda3 will be boot for install #2.
>
> Chris Murphy
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