Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-12-10 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/09/2013 11:17 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com | On 12/08/2013 01:11 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882568 Fedora could not mount | the Ubuntu partition

Re: [GW-C] Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-12-09 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/2013 01:11 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us | On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Javier Perez wrote: | For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora unless I mount the disk | each time I update ubuntu kernel. | |

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-12-09 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com | On 12/08/2013 01:11 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882568 Fedora could not mount | the Ubuntu partition for examination because it wasn't SELinux labelled. | Of course requiring a Ubuntu partition to be

Re: [GW-C] Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-12-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us | On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Javier Perez wrote: | For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora unless I mount the disk | each time I update ubuntu kernel. | | How do you expect Ubuntu to find a kernel on an unmounted partition? It is supposed to find it. There

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-12-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 29, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 28, 2013 1:09 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Nov 28, 2013, at 5:31 AM, Juan Orti Alcaine juan.o...@miceliux.com wrote: Give a look to this proposal:

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-29 Thread Javier Perez
Shouldn't this kind of propios al be written as a RFC # thingie? Like The TCP pigeon network... On Nov 28, 2013 1:09 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Nov 28, 2013, at 5:31 AM, Juan Orti Alcaine juan.o...@miceliux.com wrote: Give a look to this proposal:

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-28 Thread Juan Orti Alcaine
Give a look to this proposal: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ -- Juan Orti GPG Key: DEEBD08B - http://jorti.fedorapeople.org/pubkey.asc Blog: https://apuntesderoot.wordpress.com/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 28, 2013, at 5:31 AM, Juan Orti Alcaine juan.o...@miceliux.com wrote: Give a look to this proposal: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ Yeah I mentioned it about 23 emails back in this thread. The most useful aspect of that doc is the admission that

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:02:33 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Javier Perez wrote: For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora unless I mount the disk each time I update ubuntu kernel. How do you expect Ubuntu to find a kernel on an unmounted partition? You may be

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:24:32 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: Well it's not a good recommendation to do what is explicitly not recommended by GRUB devs. grub-install spits out a warning if you try to do this, by the way. It requires the user pass --force for it to work. No problem. So far I can

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/27/2013 09:56 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:02:33 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Javier Perez wrote: For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora unless I mount the disk each time I update ubuntu kernel. How do you expect Ubuntu to find a

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-27 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason, Fedora seems to find the kernels of the Ubuntu partitions each time I update the Fedora Kernel. I do not have them explicitly mounted as far as I remember. I'd have to check next time I boot in Fedora.

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-27 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Nov 26, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: In theory, Ubuntu and Fedora will have their own partitions inside the SDD.

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 26, 2013, at 10:17 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 11/27/2013 04:24 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 11/26/2013 11:56 PM, poma wrote: On 26.11.2013 23:18, Michael Schwendt wrote: That's because

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 27, 2013, at 1:58 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: It can't be used if /boot is on XFS or LVM or md RAID, all of which lack boot loader padding areas, so fewer configurations are supported. Okay. I don't want to put separate /boot partitions on XFS, LVM or RAID.

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:00:35 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: In theory, Ubuntu and Fedora will have their own partitions inside the SDD. My question is, can I share the /boot partition between Fedora and Ubuntu? both are using Grub2. Right now I have two /boot partitions (one on each HDD) and it

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 26, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: In theory, Ubuntu and Fedora will have their own partitions inside the SDD. My question is, can I share the /boot partition between Fedora and Ubuntu? both are using Grub2. Possibly because Ubuntu calls GRUB2 grub, while

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 26, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:00:35 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: In theory, Ubuntu and Fedora will have their own partitions inside the SDD. My question is, can I share the /boot partition between Fedora and Ubuntu? both are

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread poma
On 26.11.2013 23:18, Michael Schwendt wrote: That's because your setup is wrong. If I were you, I would install a bootloader into the boot sector of each of your /boot partitions and chainload them from your MBR. Are you kidding? poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Javier Perez wrote: For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora unless I mount the disk each time I update ubuntu kernel. How do you expect Ubuntu to find a kernel on an unmounted partition? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 26, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Javier Perez wrote: For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora unless I mount the disk each time I update ubuntu kernel. How do you expect Ubuntu to find a kernel on an unmounted partition? Neither

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/26/2013 04:00 PM, Javier Perez wrote: Hi I need some advice here. I am running a triple-boot system (Windows 2K, Fedora 19, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). It has three HDDs, one for each OS. (Windows, Fedora, Ubuntu). I am planning to upgrade this system for Christmas. Windows will go away and I

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/26/2013 11:56 PM, poma wrote: On 26.11.2013 23:18, Michael Schwendt wrote: That's because your setup is wrong. If I were you, I would install a bootloader into the boot sector of each of your /boot partitions and chainload them from your MBR. Are you kidding? I guess, he isn't. It's

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/27/2013 12:02 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Javier Perez wrote: For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora unless I mount the disk each time I update ubuntu kernel. How do you expect Ubuntu to find a kernel on an unmounted partition? Well, expect is the wording.

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 11/26/2013 11:56 PM, poma wrote: On 26.11.2013 23:18, Michael Schwendt wrote: That's because your setup is wrong. If I were you, I would install a bootloader into the boot sector of each of your /boot partitions and

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Javier Perez
For some reason, Fedora seems to find the kernels of the Ubuntu partitions each time I update the Fedora Kernel. I do not have them explicitly mounted as far as I remember. I'd have to check next time I boot in Fedora. Probably they are on /media On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Joe Zeff

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Javier Perez
. It's better to use extlinux for this use case though. I will look into it. Although what I found out at first did not look that much promising. Will this mean that I have to replace grub by extlinux? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Javier Perez
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.comwrote: On Nov 26, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: In theory, Ubuntu and Fedora will have their own partitions inside the SDD. My question is, can I share the /boot partition between Fedora and

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Javier Perez
After skimming through the manual think I like the configfile method. I will have to read some more. Thanks!!! On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.comwrote: On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 11/26/2013 11:56 PM, poma

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 26, 2013, at 8:40 PM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: . It's better to use extlinux for this use case though. I will look into it. Although what I found out at first did not look that much promising. Will this mean that I have to replace grub by extlinux? When I say this use

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 26, 2013, at 8:43 PM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Nov 26, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Javier Perez pepeb...@gmail.com wrote: In theory, Ubuntu and Fedora will have their own partitions inside

Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

2013-11-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/27/2013 04:24 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 11/26/2013 11:56 PM, poma wrote: On 26.11.2013 23:18, Michael Schwendt wrote: That's because your setup is wrong. If I were you, I would install a bootloader into the boot