dual boot linux - RHEL 6 and fedora 8

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is it possible to install RHEL 6 and Fedora 8 in a single system

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R. Hinton's picture Guru 6827 points
17 October 2014 11:43 AM

Hi Sushil, is there a reason to use Fedora 8 when there's there's at least 12 more versions after Fedora 8? Fedora 20 is out... (Hopefully v21 will be out soon)

Just curious, what made you use Fedora 8? It was released November 8th, 2007, and reached end of life in January 7th 2009

With any dual boot system, load one (I'd recommend rhel 6 first), then load Fedora (I'd recommend a current version of Fedora), leaving enough room for Fedora when you loaded RHEL.

ko Community Member 80 points
17 October 2014 12:49 PM

hi,

my application run on fedora 8 and then same application i was trying on RHEL 6 and found that its working well. now I am trying to install fedora 8 and RHEL 6 in same system. I will try that and update you.

few questions-

1.during installation- shall I create custom create layout for fedora and rhel and give space for boot,home,swap and at last for root.

2.after completion of RHEL installation,then during fedora installation at the point of grub installation shall I override or add another OS over there.

http://www.labtestproject.com/screenshot/fedora_8/pages/018_grub_configuration.html

please above link.

here shall i install grub boot loader or should not ?

if RHEL install first then it gets install on sda1 and fedroa is on sda7

3.is there any setting is required ? for dual boot linux

rhn-support-mflitter's picture Red Hat Guru 1638 points
17 October 2014 2:51 PM

we have some guidance on this already. I stress, as does the following solution, that this is unsupported by Red Hat.

How do I dual boot another Linux operating system on an alternate drive?

That said, have you considered running the Fedora 8 machine in KVM?

ko Community Member 80 points
17 October 2014 3:26 PM

hi Mark,

I checked that link too.

but RHEL support people confirm me that two RHEL version can not be install on single system.

no I cant run or install on KVM.

do you have any solution in order to install RHEL and fedora on two drive ?

ko Community Member 80 points
29 October 2014 11:48 AM

Issue is resolve and the solution is by changing the grub file.

First install fedora and then RHEL.

Partition table should be or similar like this.

sda1 -> /boot ext3 300MB
sda2 -> / ext3 60GB (mouting root file system)
sda3 -> swap ext3 6GB
sda5 -> / ext4 60GB (mouting root file system)

"grub.conf" file location -> "/etc/grub.conf"

Old grub file.

grub.conf generated by anaconda

#

Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file

NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that

all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.

root (hd0,4)

kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root

initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img

boot=/dev/sda

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux (2.6.32-71.el6.i686)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-71.el6.i686.img
title Fedora
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Now make below changes to get dual boot linux - RHEL 6 and fedora 8.

grub.conf generated by anaconda

#

Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file

NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that

all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.

root (hd0,0)

kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2

initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img

boot=/dev/sda

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux (2.6.32-71.el6.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.i686 ro root=UUID=03837b7a-1458-48c2-a523-a63e1e23347f rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-71.el6.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.21-2950.fc8xen)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/xen.gz-2.6.21-2950.fc8
module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2950.fc8xen ro root=LABEL=/
module /boot/initrd-2.6.21-2950.fc8xen.img
title Fedora-base (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img

after making above changes , reboot your system and see two option provided by grub.

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