Re: Grub and two distros

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 17:04 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I think I may have solved the mystery of my wireless problems - I'll report 
> back in a few hours when I'm more sure.  Meanwhile, I'm now about to reinstall 
> Fedora.  I'd like, if possible, to keep Linpus Lite, as I found that having 
> the easy interface on the EeePC was very useful when strangers were curious 
> about it.
> 
> Linpus appears to be using about 8GB, so I figure that if I shrink its 
> partition to 12GB that should be plenty for anything I'll ever need.  I'll 
> then do a custom install of Fedora.  I've not done a dual install like this 
> before (apart from windows dual-boot).  Can I expect that grub will recognise 
> and set up the Linpus installation, or am I likely to have to do some jiggery-
> pokery to get things going?  If there are any problems I want to know about 
> them before I start :-)
----
I gather that the best way to handle multiple linux distributions on the
same disk is for each distribution to have its own /boot and install
grub bootloader there and then use a plain grub bootloader in the mbr to
chain to the various other grubs.

This was covered about 3 months ago on the list.

Craig

-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux