On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:03:39PM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 2:49 PM, James A. Peltier jpeltier@cs.sfu.ca wrote:
Why dual boot at all? Why not just run a Xen instance?
I knew someone was going to ask that ...
I'm only planning to dual-boot while I determine which operating system to leave on the machine permanently. I don't want Xen masking interactions with the hardware in a way that might give different results from the actual behavior of each OS on the raw machine.
I am multibooting my laptop with the following setup:
* I keep a standalone small /boot (primary partition) with grub which is booted by the MBR. * one primary goes for NetBSD * one primary goes for XP * all the other linux distributions (FC8/C5) are on their own logical partition (one single 8GB slice for / including the distribution's own /boot and /home) the distribution bootloader goes to the logical partition. * a swap partion and a "/shared" ext3 partition are shared for all the linux distribution
Cheers,
Tru