[CentOS] CentOS 5 Beta Dual Boot Problem
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Mar 15 21:15:56 UTC 2007
Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> To test CentOS 5, I loaded from DVD adding it to
> a system at home running Fedora Core 7 T2.
>
> Partition Layout is:
> /dev/hda1 - / for the RH7T2 system
> /dev/hda2 - /home
> /dev/hda3 - swap
> /dev/hda4 - extended
> /dev/hda5 - / for CentOS 5
>
> The system loaded cleanly and gave me the
> opportunity to tell grub about the other system.
> CentOS boots fine. Grub Stage 2 will show me
> both systems.
Each system should have its own grub. You cannot properly install new
kernels and have the grub menu updated properly otherwise.
At one time I had, on one box, RHEL5 beta1 client and server, SLED,
OpenSUSE, maybe something else. One grub menu would have bene horrendous.
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Cheers
John
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