On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Mayavimmer <mayavimmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/01/2017 18:33, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 2:10 AM, Mayavimmer <mayavimmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I tried to do an identical second install on the same machine, but the >>> installer Anaconda gives an error about being unable to set a root >>> partition. >> >> Reproduce the problem, then grab the logs from /tmp while still in the >> installation environment, and put them up somewhere. The likely useful >> logs will be storage.log, program.log, and anaconda.log. > > Thanks, very useful info. Will do that. > >> >> It is possible to have two Fedora 25's on the system at the same time, >> with varying degrees of storage efficiency. The most efficient layouts >> use either Btrfs or LVM thin provisioning, sharing one storage pool >> for both installations (or even more than two). >> >> The one gotcha will be the bootloader configuration, whether UEFI or >> BIOS firmware, only one Fedora bootloader exists at one time. My >> preference is to make use of the GRUB configfile command to point to >> another grub.cfg. Exactly how to set this up depends on whether the >> firmware is UEFI or BIOS. > > Yes that is exactly one of the wheels I did not want to reinvent. Unfortunately it is not already invented by upstream GRUB or any other distro. The existing method creates generic entries for "other OS's" rather than forwarding entries. The result is a really incredibly bad UX for multiboot - worse than the work necessary to do it correctly rather than the overly complicated wrong way it's done now. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
