Re: sharing /boot beween FC1 and FC2

[Chris Jones <jonesc hep phy cam ac uk>]

shmuel siegel wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 11:33, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to upgrade my system to FC2, but since it took a long time to get 
> > things going correctly in FC1 I want to dual boot both for a while 
> > instead of upgrading only to discover things don't work, sharing /home 
> > and a few data partitions. I already have a /boot partition for FC1 and 
> > I am wondering if I can just point the FC2 install to this during 
> > installation - will it add itself correctly to grub.conf, or will it 
> > crash my FC1 boot options ? Is this just a bad idea ?
> >
> > cheers Chris
>
> In my experience with the test releases, this has not been straight
> forward. I advise you to back up /boot, do the install, copy back the
> old vmlinuz, System.map,  config and initrd files. Then hand merge the
> old grub.conf with the new grub.conf.
> But more importantly, you must use a different root partition, i.e. "/"
> , or you old system will become inoperable.

Sure, backing up /boot before is definitely a good idea and I was 
planning on doing that. Also I was planning to install FC2 into its own 
root partition, so "/" for FC1 and FC2 are completely seperate. I can 
then share the /home partition plus a few others I have for data files.

So I guess in principle this should work, but I probably will have to 
rebuild /boot by hand afterwards to get everything working..

cheers Chris