From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075CA1384C0 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EAC9DE0936; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:14:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA418E0930 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:14:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVoON-00087G-LA for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 00:14:31 +0200 Received: from 108-248-189-27.lightspeed.clmasc.sbcglobal.net ([108.248.189.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 00:14:31 +0200 Received: from boxcars by 108-248-189-27.lightspeed.clmasc.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 00:14:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?UTF-8?B?wrtRwqs=?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 17:14:40 -0500 Organization: none Message-ID: <20150829171440.5689bac4@sepulchrave.remarqs> References: <201508272003.05417.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20150828102431.130f9f8c@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 108-248-189-27.lightspeed.clmasc.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: 35927ae5-5e4e-4556-b765-a0eeca400c0c X-Archives-Hash: 8f287f3e6dfb49e4f01777ee076754c8 On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:24:31 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:34:30 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > I know it has worked in the past, and I know that recent versions of > > some distros that use Grub2 still allow you to pick a partition for > > the bootloader during the install. > > I'm installing openSUSE 13.2 into a VM right now and the *default* > location for installing GRUB2 is a partition! So what's all the fuss > about? Arch's wiki has the best explanation I could find of why it's discouraged, along with the warnings grub itself displays when you do it anyway.