[CentOS] Slightly OT: Dual-booting two Linux dists

[Christopher Chan]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008 3:26 PM, Tru Huynh <tru at centos.org> wrote:
>> * I keep a standalone small /boot (primary partition) with grub
>> which is booted by the MBR.
> 
> So what files are in that /boot?  Just the "grub" subdirectory?  Is
> that partition actually mounted as a filesystem on /boot in any of the
> linux installs?

Files that go in /boot are usually just kernel images, their related 
initial ramdisk images and grub related files.

As naming of kernels between Centos and Ubuntu are very likely to be 
different, having the two installations to share a /boot should not be a 
problem.

I suggest first installing one of them and then making a copy of the 
menu.1st|grub.conf file in case the installation of the second OS just 
overwrites it. If it does get overwritten, you can copy the relevant 
lines for the first installation from the copy.