Also, is it at all possible for smarts to be built-in so that more than 1 version of Fedora (and ideally other distributions as well) could all share the same boot partition? Two issues I can think of:
- As long as everybody includes a distribution prefix in the vmlinuz, initrd ... like .fc6 there should not be any overlap of kernels.
- It looks like Fedora installs grub's configuration in /etc which makes it particular to Fedora. Is it possible to move it into /boot as well so that the same grub
can be modified by any distribution?
My particular scenario is that I usually try to run the previous FC and the new FC in parallel. Occassionally I add a 3rd experimental distribution in the middle. Then I have separate paritions for data that does not change for any distribution (ie. music, photos and maybe home if I dare at somepoint). For example:
FC5 partitions, FC6 partitions, Ubuntu, Data
With FC7:
FC7 paritions, FC6 partitions, Whatever, Data
With FC8:
FC7 partitions, FC8 partitions, Whatever, Data
Every distribution install assumes that it is the only OS on disk in terms of monopolizing the MBR with its variant of grub. This makes keeping track of all of the paritions confusing.
Patrick
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