booting fedora 11 from a fedora 10 grub?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

On 09/19/2009 10:39 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 18:19:05 +0100,
>   James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>   
>> but why isn't idenitfied by /dev/sda2 like partitions normally are? I'm not
>> understanding why a UUID is necessary, as opposed to a standard /dev/sd
>> pointer to the root partition.
>>     
> Things are moving more toward using UUIDs. UUIDs are more stable in identifying
> file systems, raid arrays than using generic names. That makes them better
> fitted for the job.
>   
Yes, somewhat true.  But I still use carefully managed labels
instead of hard to remember UUIDs and it you lose it, its a pain
to recover.  It's easier for me to see: f11-boot, f11-root, f-App1,
u9-boot, u9-root, ..., w2kPro, w2kSvr, VistaH, XpPro, and so on.
I have many different OSes dispersed over many HDs.

As for grub itself, I use a grub "tree-structure" and the primary
boot grub so happens to be based on F8-grub and on the drive's
1st partition, followed with whatever grubs each OS supports
and each in it's own boot/root partitions per drive and usually all
in the extended partition.  All of my OS SATA drives uses the
maximum of 15 partitions, so that the tables are always
preserved, I learned this the hard way.

All in all, it works very well.

The point is, labels and/or UUID are not a requirement, but a
perhaps convention?  This could change though, but I hope not.

FWIW
Dan