Re: [coLinux-devel] Dual booting

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On 8/15/07, David H. Lynch Jr. <dh...@dl...> wrote:
>
> Mostly I run Ubuntu, but I have windows XP MCE on my system as I
> periodically have to test some things under windows.
> Under windows I usually have colinux running. For the moment I have
> colinux setup to mount the Ubutu partition.
>
> What I would really like is to be able to just boot colinux using the
> Ubuntu patition as its root.
> I would really like my colinux install to share everythig with my Ubuntu
> install as close as possible.
>
> With very few exceptions I can not see why I can not just tell coLinux
> to use my Ubuntu partition as root.
> Probably the biggest deals would be "hardware" differences.


How do I keep colinux from starting an xserver (gdm is fine I use Xming
> under windows to connect) ? and other things that are just not going to
> work ?

Is there a way to tell the coLinux kernel from a stock kernel after boot
> that I could use inside the /etc scripts to
> prevent coLinux frm doing things that are just not going to work ?
>
> Anyone worked extensively with colinux dual boot arrangements ave any
> recomendations ?



I used hprofile for that (hprofile.sourceforge.net).  I think the kernel
includes "-co-" in the version string, which makes it easy to select a
profile based on uname.


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