Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 at 7:44 PM From: "Bruce Dubbs" <[email protected]> To: "BLFS Support List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Moving Grub to a different partition Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > Hi > I have two LFS installations, on different partitions, on the same > drive(/dev/sda). I have the older LFS(/dev/sda7) , with grub, booting at > present to the grub menu. I need the new LFS(/dev/sda6) to take over the > booting, so I've installed Grub to this LFS. > Am I right in thinking that I now need to run(from the new LFS): > > 'grub-install --root-directory=/boot/grub /dev/sda' > > to activate, having earlier deleted Grub from the old LFS and copied > the'grub.cfg' file over?
>What I recommend is to create a separate partition for /boot. It does >not need to be large. 100 or 200 MB is sufficient. I use ext2 since a >journal is not really needed for a partition that is rarely written. >Then move all your kernels, configs, and System-maps there and mount as >/boot. Enter the partition in in fstab. >Now all your installs can share the same /boot and there is no confusion >about how to share kernels or where grub.cfg is located. Yes your right, this is the best way. I've not gone for it in the past, but now's the time. many thanks Cliff -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
