On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 11:51:35 -0700 Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Hazel Russman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > You don't actually need a separate boot partition. What the instructions > > are referring to is whatever partition GRUB should go to to find your > > kernel and other files. This could be a separate partition mounted on /boot > > or it could just be the root partition (in your case /dev/sda6). /boot will > > then be a simple directory, not a mount point. > > > > With multiple systems, each will have its own root partition. You could > > deal with this by having a boot partition with all the kernels in it and > > mounting it on /boot in each system. Alternatively you can update the > > bootloader in the distro where it's installed, with the root partitions of > > the other systems mounted on suitable mountpoints so that their kernels can > > be accessed. > > -- > > Hazel Russman <[email protected]> > > -- > > > > Thanks for the advice. How would I modify the bootloader? Following the recommendations of The Book, you'd have to hand edit grub.cfg, adding a menu entry for each of your systems. You'd modify these menu entries whenever one of your systems acquired a new kernel. Other distros run grub-mkconfig or a separate update-grub script but The Book doesn't recommend that. -- Hazel Russman <[email protected]> -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
