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2008/11/25 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
> Could he not share /boot?  He may want to have a different set of
> kernels for some reason but couldn't he even share those?  I ask cause I
> shared when I dual booted Mandrake and Gentoo.  Naturally Mandrake
> didn't last long.  LOL  It did have different kernels tho.  Mandrake
> used modules like a mad man.

Look at the kernel definition line:

kernel (hd1,1)/boot/kernel-2.6.27-r4 root=/dev/hdb2

You have to specify a file as a kernel and a / partition. Wherever
they are. If you want to share -or not- a unique /boot, feel free.

Galevsky