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

Wed Jan 9 22:49:42 UTC 2008
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca>

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> I'd like to set up a machine to dual-boot Ubuntu and CentOS5.  Any
> problems foreseen with this?  I'm mostly worried about disk labeling;
> they each need their own /boot and / filesystems.
> 
> (Or do they need separate /boot partitions?  Obviously there's an
> issue with boot.* and *.b and what System.map is symlink'd to, etc.,
> but maybe there's a way to work around that.)
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Why dual boot at all?  Why not just run a Xen instance?

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