From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E53Bu-0001f4-R6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:17:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7GFFq1R022445; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:15:52 GMT Received: from smtp19.wxs.nl (smtp19.wxs.nl [195.121.6.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7GFBRBw017132 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:11:27 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp19.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ILB003B7M8828@smtp19.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:12:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:12:01 +0200 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <43020241.2060105@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050803) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <43020D55.2040403@kabelnet.hu> X-Archives-Salt: bc7bf88b-f323-4d29-9008-e3b97481a5e8 X-Archives-Hash: 740b6409ba6c5500d94751c7f86adf8b Russell Slater schreef: > Couldn't you place both kernels in /boot with different names and > leverage grub to load the approriate one? Yes. Afaik, this is the 'traditional' method, both within a single distro with multiple kernel versions, and with multiple distros that each have a single kernel. If you originally set up both distros to point to the same external partition as /boot, then there is no problem, as the kernels will both be installed to the same /boot partition, and will most likely have different names by default. If, like me, you installed one distro with /boot as just a folder on the / partition, then installed the second using a separate partition as /boot, then you likely have to do what I did and copy one kernel (and associated files) to the /boot of the distro whose bootloader you're using, but of course, if you have to do that, you can easily rename the copied kernel to something unique, if for some reason it isn't already uniquely named. Edit your bootloader config, and you're done. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list