<p>I had them all in the boot dir.<br>
Just pointed each one with the right options under grit legacy (when it wasn't legacy).</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 10, 2012 9:24 PM, "James Morris" <<a href="mailto:jwm.art.net@gmail.com">jwm.art.net@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 10 February 2012 21:03, David Halliday <<a href="mailto:david.halliday@gmail.com">david.halliday@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Yes, they can all sit under /boot/<br>
> Grub2 and grub legacy can both do that.<br>
> Just back it up before hand just in case but I never had problems till I<br>
> tried to install windows.<br>
<br>
In subdirectories within boot - like I mention - do you mean?<br>
Or by given each distribution's kernel a different name so they don't<br>
overwrite each other?<br>
<br>
(Ie in Arch it's just vmlinuz-linux, unsure about other distros)<br>
<br>
Anyway, I've just installed syslinux as a boot loader and moved my<br>
kernel into /boot/arch and booted sucessfully on the second attempt.<br>
Very very easy <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux#Automatic_Install_-_syslinux" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux#Automatic_Install_-_syslinux</a><br>
<br>
The only problem with this method is how to force the custom kernel<br>
location for each distro? Google doesn't turn much up.<br>
<br>
Will just have to move the kernel by hand for now.<br>
<br>
James.<br>
<br>
><br>
> On Feb 10, 2012 8:30 PM, "James Morris" <<a href="mailto:jwm.art.net@gmail.com">jwm.art.net@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On 2 February 2012 06:53, Peter Childs <<a href="mailto:pchilds@bcs.org">pchilds@bcs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > Grub2 too feels like a advanced/revampted version of Lilo, not<br>
>> > any improvement on Grub-legacy at all. Its fine once you get used to it,<br>
>> > but<br>
>> > its no where near as simple and slic as Grub-legacy is ie a single text<br>
>> > file<br>
>> > you just change and it happens!.<br>
>><br>
>> I'm thinking about trying syslinux instead.<br>
>><br>
>> I want to share a /boot partition with sub directories for each distro<br>
>> ie, /boot/arch, /boot/debian, etc. I don't think it's possible with<br>
>> grub legacy and grub2 is too scary. Anyone tried sharing a /boot<br>
>> partition?<br>
>><br>
>> James.<br>
>><br>
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