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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: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 23:24:02 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-02-22, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> For many years, I've used a hard drive on which I have 8-10 Linux
> distros installed -- each in a separate (single) partition.
>
> [...]
>
> Is there an easier way to do this?

After some additional studying of UEFI and boot managers like rEFInd,
I decided that my current approach was still the easiest method. I did
switch from DOS to GPT disklabel (I bricked my old drive tring to
update the firmware, so I had to start over anyway).

In case anybody is interested in the gory details, I documented my
scheme and the helper shell scripts at

  https://github.com/GrantEdwards/Linux-Multiboot

--
Grant