root partition move

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Lennart
Sorensen<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:04:12PM -0400, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
>> Sharing /boot works too. Just may need more understanding on grub and
>> booting mechanism. That said, I do agree that chain-loading may be
>> easier.
>
> Chain loading means you can allow each linux to automatically manage grub.
> Sharing /boot means you can forget about having them automatically
> managed.

Is there a how-to on on chaining, would it be found in the GRUB
how-to, if there is one? I would like to install fedora 11 when they
get their mirror update issues worked out, and want to make sure I am
not sharing the /boot partition between different distros.

> Of course I must admit I have never installed multiple linuxes on
> one system.  I can't see any use.  If I want to play around and try out
> a distribution I will use a virtual machine.  I just never reboot so
> why would I want to have two systems to maintain where somethings work
> in one and some things in the other.  Just not useful to me.
>
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