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Re: Sharing /boot and /lib/modules with multiple distros



On 6/6/20 11:06 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I usually have three different distros installed.  I was wondering if I could
> have a separate partition (possibly in an extended partition) containing /boot
> and /var/modules that would be mounted in each of the distros.  This would
> eliminate having kernels, initrds and kernel modules duplicated for each distro,
> while allowing me to run lilo from any of them.  The only file that would need
> to be duplicated would be /etc/lilo.conf, and it doesn't take much space.  Is
> this a workable idea?
> 
> 
> Marc
> 

But why? Isn't it easier to just use linux containers?


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