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From: Christoph Gysin <cgysin@×××.ch>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:42:09
Message-Id: 4301EB3C.2080406@gmx.ch
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question by Fernando Meira
1 Fernando Meira wrote:
2 > I was told the following, which I don't agree, but in any case, I would
3 > like to hear from someone that knows :)
4 > - when having 2 different distro on 1 pc, do they have to use the same
5 > kernel?
6 > Even if they share the same swap partition and /boot is inside the root
7 > of one of the distros (and not in a separate partition)...
8
9 No, they don't have to. But they could ;-)
10
11 The bootloader could select the distribution by passing the "root=/dev/hda?"
12 boot parameter.
13
14 Christoph
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