Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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 does

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
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 kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Russell Slater
Couldn't you place both kernels in /boot with different names and leverage grub to load the approriate one?

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Gyuri
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 o

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Fernando Meira
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
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 r

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Luke Albers
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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Fernando Meira
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 one of the distros (and not i