On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:03:39PM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 2:49 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Why dual boot at all? Why not just run a Xen instance? > > I knew someone was going to ask that ... > > I'm only planning to dual-boot while I determine which operating > system to leave on the machine permanently. I don't want Xen masking > interactions with the hardware in a way that might give different > results from the actual behavior of each OS on the raw machine. I am multibooting my laptop with the following setup: * I keep a standalone small /boot (primary partition) with grub which is booted by the MBR. * one primary goes for NetBSD * one primary goes for XP * all the other linux distributions (FC8/C5) are on their own logical partition (one single 8GB slice for / including the distribution's own /boot and /home) the distribution bootloader goes to the logical partition. * a swap partion and a "/shared" ext3 partition are shared for all the linux distribution Cheers, Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B
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