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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-08-27, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal <mcatudal@comcast.net> 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.
>>
>> It's not a bug, and it won't be "fixed". Installing on a partition is
>> simply not supported.
>
> So, grub2 refuses to share power and cooperate with another bootloader.
> Bill Gates would be pround.
>
> For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a
> pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy.

You can boot multiple installations via grub2 with os-prober.