root partition move

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:17:41PM -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Lennart
> Sorensen<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:24:12AM -0400, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> >> Well, this can be tricky as well, since only one partition can be pointed
> >> from master boot record. :-) Probably the other partition can be booted
> >> through chain-loading, but it feels like one linux installation is the
> >> master and other is secondary.
> >>
> >> I myself think shared /boot do make sense, but just as I said before,
> >> currently it requires some manual work: backup /boot before installing
> >> new linux, then synchronize the new /boot with the old one. Alternatively
> >> you can get the new installation to have its own temporary /boot without
> >> writing MBR, then synchronize new temporary /boot with the real /boot.
> >
> > If you want something that works, then you pick one linux xystem to
> > be the main one.  You then let it configure grub for its use.  You can
> > then install your other linux and tell it to install its bootloader on
> > its own partition and ask the first grub to chainload the second grub.
> > Grub does not have to be in the MBR after all.  It just often is.
> >
> > So you just chainload a second grub instance the same as you chainload
> > the windows boot loader.
> 
> OK that makes more sense now. I believe this is what I did, installed
> GRUB on it's own partition, 1st boot-sector or something like that
> rather than the MBR.
> 
> I recall I had to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to add back the
> missing entry which I copied over from the other /boot/grub/menu.lst.
> 
> Is that was you mean by chaining? It seems like I can boot into every
> OS without any issue, and I belive the right vmlinuz kernel image is
> running as I don't see how a 32 bit kernel could be running 64 linked
> apps and vice-versa.
> 
> As a sanity check with my limited knowledge I would check by using:
> 'uname -a' and verify the kernel info.

A 64bit kernel usually can run 32bit applications unless you specificly
disabled that.

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