From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DBEF3158041 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:16:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2E98E2A90; Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpo79.poczta.onet.pl (smtpo79.poczta.onet.pl [141.105.16.29]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52D1EE2A7F for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:16:25 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=op.pl; s=2011; t=1708668979; bh=V4ZJfdsY6/6rdlaeXf9hazJybmyhZQEMXfRv+bYWERs=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=o8kIPOhrcw0CXupKGiuJOB8lyR8hfgF+6bDClamihv/E9TBURVmwUY4CivHQ8MF3X QIJcWu/+eaCZMqT1YvJGAvF7IkvAUQgUXAzxy2ko9PQKKkZk5LQNocqMijDyDPvHAW uje66WL1hOGhEip+EvU2OVGky6B620xS360DJlYc= Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:16:14 +0100 From: Wojciech Kuzyszyn To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros? Message-ID: <20240223071614.1e8ae072@wolf> In-Reply-To: References: 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/Zc_C0FPuhTQ8SXu8IZgAvIf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 X-ONET_PL-MDA-SEGREGATION: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 043ebca4-21cb-4055-95c9-5d41b97099ca X-Archives-Hash: e78be0c6631b209c3679282385087ffc --Sig_/Zc_C0FPuhTQ8SXu8IZgAvIf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello! I guess most (all) of the distro's you are talking about use GRUB (or at least they allow to do it). If that's true, I'm pretty sure you can happily let them overwrite the GRUB in MBR as many times as they want, since it's the same (or just probably minor version differences) bootloader. Just make a copy of /boot/grub/grub.cfg and make sure it's the same on every partition. Or, even better, if that's possible right now, make a common /boot partition and after installing the new distro just merge the (probably new) /boot/grub/grub.cfg with your old one. I really think that *should* work! Take care, ks. Wojciech Kuzyszyn --Sig_/Zc_C0FPuhTQ8SXu8IZgAvIf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: Podpis cyfrowy OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iJoEARYKAEIWIQSR3iw/A+cPGAg6ljJXqyS1DcwN6QUCZdg4LiQcd29qY2llY2gu a3V6eXN6eW5AZGllY2V6amEub3BvbGUucGwACgkQV6sktQ3MDem7pgEA69bW/Bsf hBx6C3E4PxVqamQoI/BJmehrnYcoYqdgI14A/2iOXvVrDdmUBFpvOTSqhNlcqnpc 7t/ADMh4sa2zSOkI =Bqg9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Zc_C0FPuhTQ8SXu8IZgAvIf--