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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

> On Wednesday 02 October 2002 00:03, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> Mine compiled fine.  The only time it would was if I tried using XFS.
>> Is this what you did?  If not, do you remember the error?
>
> Signal 11 at random times, and if it did succeed, the kernel was
> unstable -  it would panic for no obvious reason. The laptop now has Red
> Hat on it, and  it compiled a kernel but I didn't install it right.
>
>> The latest compiler is gcc3.1 (IIRC) and linux-2.4.18 (also IIRC) on
>> the 0701 ISO from Adam.
>
> I'll try it, but I think I'll keep Red Hat on it as a backup. Should the
> two  distros have separate /boot partitions or can they be shared?
>
> phma

You should probably use separate /boot partitions.  You _could_ use the
same /boot, but then one distro might (very unlikely, but there is a
chance) overwrite a working kernel with one that may not work.  It's
_almost_ safe to do so, since you're using SMGL and RH (which use
different naming conventions, IIRC), but it's safer to not share /boot.

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

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