root partition move

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 03:43:19PM -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> So if I were to go through the process of re-installing GRUB, never
> done this. You're telling me it would not find any of the
> pre-installed OSes? I would have to add them in manually from memory?
> From my perspective, GRUB along with any other bootloader should be
> robust enough to handle OS detection.

No that has never been the job of ANY bootloader.  Bootloaders don't
make decisions, they just do as they are told.

> I have /boot on a separate partition so installing another OS should
> not overwrite GRUB config files as the files for it are located under
> /boot/grub and this partition should be hands-off during the install
> of a new OS. In fact it should not be able to overwrite GRUB
> configuration file unless one re-installs over an existing OS that has
> /boot on the same partition.

Only one OS can own /boot.  No linux distribution can be expected to
know the syntax of every other linux distributions boot loader.  If you
want to share /boot between two linux systems, then you (as the admin)
become entirely responsible for the boot loader config.

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Len Sorensen
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