Dual boot multiple fedora verions
poma
pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Sun Nov 23 20:57:45 UTC 2014
On 23.11.2014 21:47, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sure,
>> shared single /boot with a extlinux/extlinux.conf
>
> That's a good idea also. Single /boot means one grub.cfg or
> extlinux.conf. And the kernels each have distinct naming conventions
> between distro versions so no conflicts there. Grubby will update the
> menu entries when new kernels are installed.
>
/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
ui menu.c32
menu title The EXTLINUX bootloader
timeout 50
label Fedora (3.17.3-300.fc21.x86_64) 21 (Twenty One)
kernel /vmlinuz-3.17.3-300.fc21.x86_64
append root=UUID=...
initrd /initramfs-3.17.3-300.fc21.x86_64.img
label Fedora (3.17.3-300.fc21.i686) 21 (Twenty One)
kernel /vmlinuz-3.17.3-300.fc21.i686
append root=UUID=...
initrd /initramfs-3.17.3-300.fc21.i686.img
label CentOS Linux (3.10.0-123.9.3.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core)
kernel /vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.9.3.el7.x86_64
append root=UUID=...
initrd /initramfs-3.10.0-123.9.3.el7.x86_64.img
label Memtest86+ 5.01
kernel /memtest86+-5.01
label BFO boot.fedoraproject.org - iPXE
kernel /ipxe.lkrn
Yeah,
of course should be done for each new installation - the initial entry point and that's it, the rest is covered via grubby.
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