-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/24/2013 11:33 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Hi, > > IIRC fedora-review suggested to test packages on all sup- > ported Fedora releases. So, with a larger hard disk, I want > to install Fedora 19, 20 (soon) and Rawhide and throw in > (recent) Debian and Ubuntu as well. As my notebook doesn't > support VMs, I'm interested in best practices for partition- > ing and multi-boot setups. > > Currently I use a partition for /boot and another for an en- > crypted LVM, so I only need to worry not to put private data > in /boot, and I would like to keep such flexibility. > > I suppose I need to create a /boot partition for each ver- > sion/OS. I have had different Fedora versions share the > same encrypted LVM without problems; I assume Debian and > Ubuntu will do so as well, but I will keep some free space > and partitions just in case. > > More contested seems to be the multi-boot setup. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826 has a > myriad of opinions on how it should be set up; > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jlaska/Multiple_OS_Bootloader_Guide > suggests "chainloader", and > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Multi_002dboot-manual-config.html > recommends "configfile". Of course there is also GRUB's OS > prober. > > So what are Fedora developers /actually/ using? Creating a > separate GRUB partition and "chainloader"/"configfile"? > Running OS prober in the "main" OS after each installation/ > kernel update? Something else? How often do the setups al- > low one to shoot oneself in the foot, or are they (more or > less) "foolproof"? > > Thanks in advance, > Tim > Enough people have asked this sort of question that Chris Roberts and I started hacking on a Guide to address it. Suggestions, criticisms, or contributions are equally welcome. [1] https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/docs/multiboot-guide.git/ - -- - -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanetize@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSk2y7AAoJEL1wZM0+jj2ZU3EIAJBMdQg49E1Gh1Nzdvk2bxdo 6RowLli9qfow9HiMjESNNN70VIZQDnBfZ0d6V+tquEHeBLXG/PLh7fLyYIdn3wNL JdogdQX2K9BicH+bsCpYqabXxOGWWHH5ss+J6+fBYAwDxo/z5/j4+XXRSkDG9Kci 8RR7uCcfWpNNvODBzYIp34LFe7m1QAsFnwBxtMGVg7qzLJ2LEiOVcm0jkWxwa+wa OTfDpnngPUTjpKK2exICRMQzrJoHFlv7bduaEaH7yp7YfD7DN5UR/wLku1kFHjbh Ym7d3MItawLkAtURTh0NuR4hT+TTzxgTYgYXxi7vCuNdX4+Uq6V5xuO6YGdCtEs= =Qvmd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
