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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Fernando Rodriguez
<frodriguez.developer@outlook.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 6:27:14 PM Michel Catudal wrote:
>>
>> I've had serious problems in the past getting to to install on a partition
>> and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insists on installing on the MBR which is
>> unacceptable.
>
> Yes and no, at least it can be a pain. I remember running into that and got it
> to work after several hours, unfortunately I forgot how. It may have been that
> it writes to both the mbr and the partition so you can restore the old mbr and
> still boot the partition. It also treats removable media and HDs different.
> It's hard to remember because I tried so many things.

You have to use "--force" but the grub developers consider using it
unreliable because you then have to make use of block lists.