Change the Linux distribution "on the fly"

Altair2 · 03-27-2012, 01:03 PM

Hello people,

I have a question, think in a computer with this hard disk:

/dev/sda1, swap
/dev/sda2, linux-1
/dev/sda3, linux-2

linux-1 and linux-2 are 2 differents Linux distributions, using grub2. Example:

/dev/sda2, debian
/dev/sda3, slackware

assuming (example) the boot flag is in sda2, ¿is possible change "on the fly" to the other distribution?. ¿And return to the "original" distribution?.

Thanks

salasi · 03-27-2012, 01:12 PM

I don't think that you can, with that arrangement (or what I understand of it). If the distros had different swaps, I think there might be a possibility, but you'd have to know more about it than I do, and do some coding.