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

[David Halliday]

I had them all in the boot dir.
Just pointed each one with the right options under grit legacy (when it
wasn't legacy).
On Feb 10, 2012 9:24 PM, "James Morris" <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10 February 2012 21:03, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> In subdirectories within boot - like I mention - do you mean?
> Or by given each distribution's kernel a different name so they don't
> overwrite each other?
>
> (Ie in Arch it's just vmlinuz-linux, unsure about other distros)
>
> Anyway, I've just installed syslinux as a boot loader and moved my
> kernel into /boot/arch and booted sucessfully on the second attempt.
> Very very easy
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux#Automatic_Install_-_syslinux
>
> The only problem with this method is how to force the custom kernel
> location for each distro? Google doesn't turn much up.
>
> Will just have to move the kernel by hand for now.
>
> James.
>
> >
> > 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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