Dual boot multiple fedora verions
Andy Campbell
fedora at starsend.force9.co.uk
Sun Nov 23 18:52:51 UTC 2014
Is there an elegant way to install two versions of Fedora at the same
time ?
I like to keep the existing version running, while I test/setup new
version, then swap when I'm happy everything is running ok. Previously
I've done with a boot loader like Air-Boot ( http://sourceforge.net/
projects/air-boot/ ) and partitioned my hard drive with
p1 boot1 ( F19)
p2 boot2 ( F20)
p3 LVM
/ for F19
/ for F20
/home
...
Then told the installer to use the relevant /boot to install the
bootloader. However that sort of broke from F18 and I've had to use the
workaround in bug 872826 to get that to work.
Can I just use grub2 ? to manage booting, I guess one version of F20 will
have to be the owner. How will updates work, can they both update the
grub2 config when the kernel is updated ? I've googled around and not
really found any simple solutions. This artificial looks possible, but
seem to require some manual fiddling around https://
www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/08/how-to-do-manual-multi-boot-
configuration-with-fedora/
I don't think its too much of a mad idea to want to do a staged upgrade
to next version, and I quite like have a clean install to get rid of all
the stuff I've installed just to play with.
- Any suggestions, or link's I haven't found.
Thanks in advance
Andy
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