On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:22:09PM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote: > Arne Chr. Jorgensen wrote: > >It's possible to have dual boot, like Fedora + Windows. Is it not possible > >to have a dual boot, like FC6 and F8 ? > > Yes you can do that, but there are a few complications. Fedora by default > labels the partitions in a simple way (LABEL=/, LABEL=/home) and mounts > these by label. Anaconda is smart enough to create labels which do not conflict with already existing ones. At least this was the case when I was adding new installations on the same machine. I could redo later these labels to be consistent across a particular installation but this is only for my own sanity. I may have five or six distros, between Fedora and CentOS and x86_64 and i386, on my test box at a given moment. If you have multiple Linux installations on one host then it is a very good idea to have one "master boot partition", used by grub installed on MBR, with a menu which chainloads grubs, with boot sectors installed on partitions, for all instances. You will see why on the first kernel update. The very first boot may require some "manual work" before boot menus were edited. That it may be not so easy to get if you did not plan things that way from the very start but in any case one can get pretty close to such organization. If you are messing around with partitioning layout then it is a really advisable to have a good backup unless your data are truly disposable. It is possible to recover from many partitioning disasters but if you have to ask how to do that then it is likely already too late. OTOH if you have backups then it could be simpler just to remake a layout of your disks and restore what you need from those backups. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
