On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:12 +, Fernando Meira wrote:
- when having 2 different distro on 1 pc, do they have to use the same
kernel?
no
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Fernando Meira schreef:
Hi,
I was told the following, which I don't agree, but in any case, I would
like to hear from someone that knows :)
- when having 2 different distro on 1 pc, do they have to use the same
kernel?
Even if they share the same swap partition and /boot is inside the root
Fernando Meira wrote:
I was told the following, which I don't agree, but in any case, I would
like to hear from someone that knows :)
- when having 2 different distro on 1 pc, do they have to use the same
kernel?
Even if they share the same swap partition and /boot is inside the root
of one of
That was exactly what I was thinking...
My doubt arose when I got the following reply of a dual-boot installation with Ubuntu and Gentoo:
you have to use the same kernel from the Ubuntu
installation for Gentoo (unless or course you manually upgrade it),
however either way you end up with vanilla.
Fernando Meira wrote:
Hi,
I was told the following, which I don't agree, but in any case, I
would like to hear from someone that knows :)
- when having 2 different distro on 1 pc, do they have to use the same
kernel?
Even if they share the same swap partition and /boot is inside the
root of
Couldn't you place both kernels in /boot with different names and leverage grub to load the approriate one?
Russell Slater schreef:
Couldn't you place both kernels in /boot with different names and
leverage grub to load the approriate one?
Yes. Afaik, this is the 'traditional' method, both within a single
distro with multiple kernel versions, and with multiple distros that
each have a single kernel.
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:12:01 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
If, like me, you installed one distro with /boot as just a folder on the
/ partition, then installed the second using a separate partition as
/boot, then you likely have to do what I did and copy one kernel (and
associated files) to the
Neil Bothwick schreef:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:12:01 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
If, like me, you installed one distro with /boot as just a folder on the
/ partition, then installed the second using a separate partition as
/boot, then you likely have to do what I did and copy one kernel (and
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:45:37 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
Maybe under normal circumstances it is, but SUSE really doesn't seem to
like booting from Gentoo's bootloader when the SUSE kernel is on the
other partition (not in the /boot partition my Gentoo uses). Of course,
the SUSE kernel doesn't
Neil Bothwick schreef:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:45:37 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
Maybe under normal circumstances it is, but SUSE really doesn't seem to
like booting from Gentoo's bootloader when the SUSE kernel is on the
other partition (not in the /boot partition my Gentoo uses). Of course,
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