I wanted to try upgrading on a system with multiple boot and root partitions,
sharing home ans swap.
How I did it:
I took an fc17 test machine and made a new copy of the disk image
qemu-img convert f17-work.img f18-base.img
I made a working copy
qemu-create -b fc18-base.img fc18-work.img
I made it bigger
qemu-img resize f18-work.img +6G
Then I booted:
qemu-kvm -m 1200 -hda fc18-work.img -cdrom fc18-install.iso -boot d
As I did the install, creating a new partition for boot and one for root(fc18)
worked finr, the swap was picked up from the LV of fc17.
Then I tried to have the fc17_root mount /fc17/root and the fc17_home LV mount
on /fc17/root, etc. Nothing complained, but it didn't work.
If there was a way to provide other bootable OS I missed it (it should be
obvious). So I can't boot fc17, and I can't boot XP. That seems like an issue.
Hope this helps someone. Hypervisor gurus can do this cleverly, I went manual so
it would work for me.
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Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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