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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:44:28 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-02-26, Wol <antlists@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
> On 26/02/2024 20:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like
>> that and just buy a dozen USB flash drives.
>> 
> And then, if USB isn't the default boot media, he might as well sort out 
> UEFI boot, and multi-boot that way.

Except that every time I've found a write-up about multibooting a lot
of Linux distros with UEFI, it turns out that it doesn't actually work
very well and is more work to maintain than what I'm doing now.

--
Grant