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stozi

Member

Registered: 2010-03-02

Posts: 149

Syslinux on shared boot partition- Forseeable problems?

I installed Arch and openSUSE sharing a 300mb boot partition. OpenSUSE's grub is uninstalled in favour of Arch's syslinux. syslinux.cfg is like so:

LABEL arch
	MENU LABEL Arch Linux
	LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
	APPEND root=/dev/sda1 rw
	INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img

LABEL archfallback
	MENU LABEL Arch Linux Fallback
	LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
	APPEND root=/dev/sda1 rw
	INITRD ../initramfs-linux-fallback.img

LABEL opensuse
        MENU LABEL openSUSE Linux
        LINUX ../vmlinuz
        APPEND root=/dev/sda2 rw
	INITRD ../initrd

Unless I'm much mistaken the two distros have totally different naming conventions for the files in /boot.

backup_mbr                    symvers-3.7.10-1.16-desktop.gz
boot.readme                   symvers-3.7.10-1.1-desktop.gz
config-3.7.10-1.16-desktop    sysctl.conf-3.7.10-1.16-desktop
config-3.7.10-1.1-desktop     sysctl.conf-3.7.10-1.1-desktop
grub                          syslinux
grub2                         System.map-3.7.10-1.16-desktop
initramfs-linux-fallback.img  System.map-3.7.10-1.1-desktop
initramfs-linux.img           vmlinux-3.7.10-1.16-desktop.gz
initrd                        vmlinux-3.7.10-1.1-desktop.gz
initrd-3.7.10-1.16-desktop    vmlinuz
initrd-3.7.10-1.1-desktop     vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.16-desktop
lost+found                    vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop
memtest.bin                   vmlinuz-linux
message

Everything works nicely at the moment, but is there anything I should do before it all blows up in my face? (other than delete that out-of-date openSUSE shizzle?)

nomorewindows

Member

Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 3,367

Re: Syslinux on shared boot partition- Forseeable problems?

You should be good.

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I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.