[Klug-general] bootloaders and shared /boot [was:Re: H Drive mount]

David Halliday david.halliday at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 21:03:40 UTC 2012


Yes, they can all sit under /boot/
Grub2 and grub legacy can both do that.
Just back it up before hand just in case but I never had problems till I
tried to install windows.
On Feb 10, 2012 8:30 PM, "James Morris" <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 February 2012 06:53, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:
>
> > Grub2 too feels like a advanced/revampted version of Lilo, not
> > any improvement on Grub-legacy at all. Its fine once you get used to it,
> but
> > its no where near as simple and slic as Grub-legacy is ie a single text
> file
> > you just change and it happens!.
>
> I'm thinking about trying syslinux instead.
>
> I want to share a /boot partition with sub directories for each distro
> ie, /boot/arch, /boot/debian, etc. I don't think it's possible with
> grub legacy and grub2 is too scary. Anyone tried sharing a /boot
> partition?
>
> James.
>
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