Dual boot Fedora & CentOS
Hi,
I am looking for a new setup on my linux box. More specifically I would like to have 2 independent distros on the same box. One distro (Fedora 21) for using all latest gnome, etc goodies and one stable distro (CentOS 7) for falling back when the latest dirsto (Fedora 21) is failing. What would be the best setup?
Background: Generally, I am a professional server side java developer and I would say I am an experienced bash shell user (on Red Hat). However I don't have admin linux experience and never used linux as my main personal OS. Now I would like to make that switch. So far I have used CentOS 7 and I am happy with it but I am missing all latests Gnome updates available in the Fedora releases.
I was thinking of using 2 partitions for each distro and one partition for my home directory. Using grub I will dual boot between fedora (default) and centos. If the fedora upgrade/update fails then I will use centOS. Is these setup recommended? Is there a better way achieving the same? Any documentation/resource on the web?
I am not experienced with grub. How both distros can use the same grub config so that I can get both OS configuration on the grub screen during boot?
It's best to use a separate /boot partition for each distro. grub2-mkconfig from either centos7 or Fedora should find the other. It's not much more complicated than that :)