root partition move

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Lennart
Sorensen<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

This is good to know now so I don't find myself in a predicament if I
ever pooch the bootloader. I will have to file a bug with the Kubuntu
camp to update their installer then!

>> 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.

I get this, this is what I am currently doing, each linux gets it own
/boot partition.

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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav
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