Hi Chris. Thanks fo.r the reply . The principle reason for doing/testing dual boot is to have the ability to be able to do a remote reinstall for a fresh OS on a remote box. If you know of a way to accomplish that, I'm more than willing to hear it!! Everything I've seen regarding doing reinstalling of OS, requires having access to the box, with fresh media. This is really intended to allow me to detect if the "base/master" system has been hacked, and then to immeadiately switch to the minimal OS/system, which would then invoke a netinstall for the hacked system/OS to have a clean system. So, the test is to have a dual Centos process, which is what I'm looking to implement right now. Here are the current steps I've used, feel free to tell me where I've gone off track. -Centos6.5 -Lenovo -250G Drive OS1 -insert the centos 6.5 dvd -select the fresh install -basic storage device -Fresh Installation -Create Custom Layout LVM Volume Groups VolGroup 237972 lv2_apps 5000 /apps2 lv2_backup 5000 /backup2 lv2_home 5000 /home2 lv2_root 10000 / lv_apps 10000 /apps lv_backup 10000 /backup lv_home 10000 /home lv_root 51200 / lv_swap 3824 free 127948 Hard Drive sda sda1 500 /boot ext4 sda2 237974 VolGroup physical volume (LVM) On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2013, at 1:48 PM, bruce <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi Chris, >> >> For my tests right now, I'm simply trying to get dual Centos up/running, > > OK but why do it the hard way, instead of putting one of them in a VM? Or better, Fedora 20, and put two CentOS and another Fedora each in their own VM? In that case you don't have to deal with the esoteric, user hostile, world of bootloaders on Linux. You can just get to booting multiple OS's. And they boot faster. > > The only reason for dual booting I can think of is expressly to learn about the challenges of getting bootloaders to do dual booting. > >> Based on what you've said, there are errors in what I'm trying to >> accomplish. You wouldn't have a few mins to walk me through this would >> you. > > It's a lot more than that I can assure you. It took me more time than I care to admit, and if I could get that time back from the life blood sucking experience it was, I'd probably do that. > > remove "hidemenu" so you can see the menu, and duplicate the two entries, changing just the one thing that matters which is the menu entry name, and the root. You do not need separate swaps either. > > > hidemenu > title Centos (2.6.32-431.e16.x86_64) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinux-2.6.32-431.e16.x86_64 ro > root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD > rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 > rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM rhgb > quiet > initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-431.e16.x86_64.img > > title Centos2 (2.6.32-431.e16.x86_64) > root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux-2.6.32-431.e16.x86_64 ro > root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv2_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD > rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 > rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv2_root KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM rhgb > quiet > initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-431.e16.x86_64.img > >> >> I'm convinced that this is doable, and that whatever mistakes I've >> made are probably subtle/easy to correct. >> >> Do you happen to know of a good tutorial for this that walks through >> all the steps. > > Not really. It's the domain of bad documentation designed for developers, not users. I learned what I learned via immense suffering and blunt contact. > > > Chris Murphy > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
