Re: multiboot different linux distributions?

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 09/21/05 

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:34:24 -0500

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:11:50 GMT, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I can find 10,000 pointers on the web to multi booting Windows
> and linux with grub, yet I can't find any info about booting
> multiple linux distributions with grub. Any pointers? (Perhaps
> they are there, but obscured by the 10,000 hits for windows :-).

Doing a _man grub_ should get you to documentation as to how grub
works. Then you modify the config file for which grub is going to be
in charge.

> I ask because I suspect I'd run into problems if I tried
> with things like fedora and opensuse. Fedora has a grub.conf
> file, suse calls it something like menu.conf. Who gets
> to be in charge?

That is the problem with being gui gifted. :)
You do not get to understand how to manage the application
configuration file.

> If I update the suse kernel in yast, and fedora is in charge, how
> does it find out about the new suse kernel (and vice-versa).

You can edit the menu.lst with an editor. If the men.lst is on the
other distribution's space, you create a mount point, mount the other
partition, and run your editor of choice to make any change you like.

man mkdir
man mount
man umount
man fstab

Example on suse:
mkdir /fedora
mount -t auto /dev/hdXY /fedora <=== you solve for X and Y
ls /fedora
ls /fedora/boot/grub
umount /fedora

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