disk partitioning for multiOS machine

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:40:06PM +0200, nodata wrote:
> Shared boot? Interesting - how well does that work with lots of things writing to it?

On install, they trash /boot/grub/grub.conf, so you have to save it
first, restore it after the install, and add the new operating system.
It'd be nice if the installer would just edit this file if it already
exists.

On 'yum upgrade', the file is edited fine.

Just remember to tell anaconda not to reformat the /boot partition
completely.

It's a good idea to keep a backup of the shared partition (and in
particular of grub.conf) in case you trash it, but generally it works
fine, and it's a lot easier than having multiple primary boot
partitions.

Rich.

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