[PLUG] Three Linux systems, one boot partition...

[Michael C. Robinson]

I thought I could just uninstall lilo from one 
of the Linux systems I was working on.  
Unfortunately, it screwed things up even though 
I tarred up boot before removal and restored it 
after.  I guess I should have chrooted into the 
Linux system responsible for lilo to rerun lilo.  
My last run of lilo must have been from the Linux 
system I was taking it off of instead of another 
one so that lilo couldn't be found.  I'd like to 
uninstall lilo from all but one system.

The module-info files under /boot, what are they 
for?  Is there any reason to keep vmlinux-x.y.z 
around when you need the compressed version to boot?

I guess the leftover grub directory even though grub 
is uninstalled is another bug.  I just removed it.  
If you uninstall the files of an rpm manually that 
is still installed can you safely remove that rpm as 
well?  

How do rpms behave in cases of overlap?  I installed 
to my boot partition from all three systems without 
reformatting it since it's shared.  My two Redhat 7.3 
systems are both using the original kernel.  I have 
yet to get a custom kernel for Redhat 7.3 working 
right, but at least I got one to boot finally.  I 
discovered that I had to use absolute device paths 
for custom kernels in lilo.conf even though the 
original kernel uses some kind of indirect label.

     --  Michael