Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

[Jeremi Piotrowski <jeremi.piotrowski@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Michel Catudal wrote:

> No one is asking them to do that. As mentioned before it works with some
> override. A solution to the problem would be to remove the arrogance toward
> people who want grub on a partition and remove the part in the installer that
> refuses to install it unless you give it an override. 

To me they are dealing with this in the right way. As the developers they
have to decide what setups they want to support as the spectrum is huge
and manpower is limited. 

There are problems with installing grub to a partition, read [1].
Therefore it is not supported and not allowed by default, because if they
don't do this people:

    1. _will_ try installing to a partition
    2. _will_ render their system unbootable
    3. _will_ come running for help and complaining
    4. _will_ get angry when you tell them `I told you so'

Seems perfectly legit to want to spare yourself this trouble.

> If I say write the
> bootloader on the partition, that should work as requested, they can still
> write a comment that they do not like us doing it but should not keep us from
> doing it. If it doesn't work we will see it soon enough.
>

I don't get you - that _is_ exactly what they are doing. You say 'write
bootloader to partition' by adding the force flag and grub2 complains but
does what it is told. 

[1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1229097#p1229097