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 4C0DF1384E3 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:22:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 798F81427A; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:22:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f169.google.com (mail-ig0-f169.google.com [209.85.213.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3861114232 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igcse8 with SMTP id se8so16309918igc.1 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:22:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=Ow6KLSNb/H5QKWkyQ7mZ+0aiTg7Vnrz7DmeG4Bkdb+A=; b=xKCzZogLBGt8uQuaBIYtbu0PgbQBuY65w+BRn4f7KeV+NtnMVze2X3rOD+VhXwawqB WA3GCCUtodzGj1I/olSzmLu9KP958C4WZ68ExyKoCNBKKwnly1zYh8hVZ1lLQFcKmoSR aKGerGq6fxOi+aMCxSRodkHtDQxB0taNM8pId/lgzT0Ml7XU3GM3UtT2rFilLSnMnp3w cUIeZp+1ywGpuAYWB1qzVKI7wGFGHx3u6Q9SN9Uh2Dg2nvj1fNk33TKDLNxdsaRsmbT8 t7Teq/fkuXRbk+VOQBFuJNJ58rZvigfNEcy0eLYa0U9a13ZSRe47+JJftngOL+YQiE+u zyuw== 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 X-Received: by 10.50.143.2 with SMTP id sa2mr2946759igb.92.1440760955735; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:22:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.79.116.8 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:22:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9607692.WH3L4rWafW@wstn> References: <55DE3D41.1050301@comcast.net> <9607692.WH3L4rWafW@wstn> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:22:35 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 From: Tom H To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: cdf7120b-d8bf-4119-8ab2-d1764523e65e X-Archives-Hash: 7a42d0bc323df5ff45839259252a1585 On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 27 August 2015 08:49:13 Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal >>> >>> 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. Linux is horrendously restrictive; you can only boot from one kernel at a time!