Re: sharing /boot among multible Linux distros

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On Nov 26, 2013, at 8:40 PM, Javier Perez <pepebuho@xxxxxxxxx> 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 case" I'm not recommending it for you necessarily. I'm saying for those who insist on having bootloaders installed to partitions/volumes rather than using GRUB the way it's intended to work, should use extlinux which is designed expressly to work by being installed to each partition's VBR.

I would just use the Fedora installation of GRUB, let it step on Ubuntu's installation of GRUB (which still keeps the Ubuntu grub.cfg intact), and then edit Fedora's /etc/grub.d/40_custom file to add  an Ubuntu configuration entry that uses configfile pointing to Ubuntu's grub.cfg. That way anytime you run grub2-mkconfig on Fedora, the resulting grub.cfg always has an entry that points to Ubuntu (as well as Fedora entries). And Ubuntu kernel updates will be reflected in its grub.cfg.

Chris Murphy
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