On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote: For a partition to be bootable, it has to have the appropriate files on > it to boot your computer. Can you give me one reason why you'd want to > have those files in /home, even if it is on its own partition, as it is > on my computers? >
Not have but just asked for clarification. On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Greg Woods <wo...@ucar.edu> wrote: Yes, I can. I have a system with Windows dual boot, and I want to be > able to hibernate Linux, boot into Windows, and then resume Linux from > hibernation. With recent versions of Fedora, this is not possible from > the standard grub configuration, because hibernating does something to > the master boot loader block that causes it to boot immediately into the > same Linux kernel that was hibernated, rather than presenting the usual > boot menu. I do not have the option of booting Windows instead. This is > done to prevent someone from accidentally booting the wrong kernel, thus > clobbering their hibernation info. That is rather like shutting down the > computer by pulling the plug out of the wall, which can obviously have > bad consequences. > I really don't know what is hibernation and all that. Can you step by step let me know or point me to the link what is hibdernation for beginners? > Unfortunately, this safeguard does get in the way of my desire to > hibernate Linux and boot into Windows. So I get around this by booting > from /home. The master boot block contains pointers to the /home boot > configuration that has nothing in it but chainloaders. Then grub inside > Fedora is installed only on the Fedora root partition. This only > requires that the contents of /boot/grub be copied > to /home/boot/grub, /home/boot/grub/grub.conf be edited appropriately, > and that grub be installed on the master boot sector with root pointed > at the /home partition. > > Doing it this way, when I fire up the machine, I am given a choice of > Fedora or Windows. If I select Windows, then Windows will boot and run > normally. If I select Fedora, then the boot block from the Fedora > partition is loaded, the hibernated kernel immediately boots, and all is > as I want it to be. That can also work with multiple Linux systems > booting, as long as they do not share any swap partitions. > > So this is at least one reason why someone might want to boot > from /home. It does, of course, require that you be comfortable playing > around with boot loaders, and be comfortable reinstalling the master > boot block from a rescue CD or DVD (in case you screw up, which of > course I have done and had to recover this way). > I guess this much advanced and I am not able to understand all this - a typical thoery. If you can explain step by step, I can understand. THANX but a bit of it was understood by me. -- THX
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