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

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2015-08-27, Jeremi Piotrowski <jeremi.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:

> I much prefer chainloading and giving each distro free reign over their
> own boot loader. That way they can pretend they're the boss and work the
> way they were intended to and I can supervise things from gentoo.

Yup.  I've got up to 12 Linux distros on some machines, and I've found
that approach works far, far better that allowing multiple distros to
fight over who gets to configure a single bootloader.  A small grub
partition for the files needed by grub1 in the MBR, and then each
partition is a world unto itself with it's own bootloader that gets
managed by whatever distro is installed on that partion.

That used to be trivial, but it's getting a more difficult to do that
these with some distros refusing to install a bootloader anywhere
other than the MBR.  [That's just one of an increasing number of
reasons for my increasing dislike of Fedora/CentOS/RH.]  It's still a
lot easier than letting multiple distros all think they own the MBR
bootloader.  I've never had much luck with that at all.

--
Grant