partition tip ?

[John Summerfield]

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.  If you have two distros installed you'll need to 
> have them labeled so as not to conflict, and that means some manual 
> editing of fstab and labeling the filesystems.
> 
> The only alternative I'm aware of for that is hiding partitions from 
> grub, although I'm not sure if that fully fixes the problem once the 
> kernel takes over and anything other than the root is mounted.  If you 
> had a common /home and only two separate / partitions which contained 
> the entire install that might work.
> 
I don't think Grub has a lot to do with it.

Conflicting names (partitions and volume groups is a problem).




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