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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:34:30 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-08-27, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> You beat me to it.  Yes GRUB2 can be installed on a partition instead
> of the MBR and yes it complains about it. However, it works
> regardless. 

I know it has worked in the past, and I know that recent versions of
some distros that use Grub2 still allow you to pick a partition for
the bootloader during the install.

> I have done it a couple of times so far, just as you describe above.
> In my case I chainload GRUB2 with NTLDR or modern equivalent and this
> is how I know that the MBR was not being overwritten by it.

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