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 A5C9B1385BF for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8536DE0968; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2385FE0963 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZV88A-0001wT-8j for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 03:06:58 +0200 Received: from c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([24.118.110.103]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 03:06:58 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 03:06:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <55DE3D41.1050301@comcast.net> <20150827181711.49f2c3e4@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: dce6011b-6c88-49cf-8644-45ce679334c9 X-Archives-Hash: 05f562afd91b1a2d210c83b382865624 On 2015-08-27, Jeremi Piotrowski 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