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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:11:44 +0100
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On Thursday 27 August 2015 08:49:13 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal <mcatudal@comcast.net> 
> > I've had serious problems in the past getting [grub2] to install on a
> > partition and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insists on installing on the
> > MBR which is unacceptable.
> 
> It's not a bug, and it won't be "fixed". Installing on a partition is
> simply not supported.

So now grub2 is insisting on being the only boot manager present. That doesn't 
sound like the Linux way to me.

-- 
Rgds
Peter