On 01/01/2017 18:33, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 2:10 AM, Mayavimmer <mayavim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I tried to do an identical second install on the same machine, but the >> installer Anaconda gives an error about being unable to set a root >> partition. > > Reproduce the problem, then grab the logs from /tmp while still in the > installation environment, and put them up somewhere. The likely useful > logs will be storage.log, program.log, and anaconda.log.
Thanks, very useful info. Will do that. > > It is possible to have two Fedora 25's on the system at the same time, > with varying degrees of storage efficiency. The most efficient layouts > use either Btrfs or LVM thin provisioning, sharing one storage pool > for both installations (or even more than two). > > The one gotcha will be the bootloader configuration, whether UEFI or > BIOS firmware, only one Fedora bootloader exists at one time. My > preference is to make use of the GRUB configfile command to point to > another grub.cfg. Exactly how to set this up depends on whether the > firmware is UEFI or BIOS. Yes that is exactly one of the wheels I did not want to reinvent. > > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
