On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 14:04 +0000, Kruppt wrote: > On 2013-10-30, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > > I've wondered about this or something similar. Has anyone tried having > > each OS install their grub to their partition, rather than the MBR ??? and > > then having a separate grub configuration that installs onto the MBR > > which lets you chain-load each of the partitions (or LVs or whatever?) > > My thinking is that the MBR-level grub will not need to be updated > > much, and various OS's machinery built on top of grub to update when > > you put a new kernel in, etc., are less likely to trample on each other > > (or the MBR) if you have told them (or d-i or whatever) to not install > > to the MBR themselves. > > > > Does that sound sane? > > > > > > Yes, I do exactly that, and have done that on all my computers > for years. You can create a small partition to install Grub alone. > Install Grub to MBR and later Grub stages to to this ext3 partition. > All GNU/Linux distros installed on said system have Grub installed > to their own root partitions. (chainload Grub to Grub) > Or if it be a great hassle for you to create a separate Grub partition > as you now have your drive(s) currently partitioned, > just use the first Linux partition that has a GNU/Linux distro installed > on the first drive to install Grub MBR and later stages to, > and chainload the other Operating Systems > installed on drive(s) from there. I also do this, in particular since one of the OS is Windows 7 pro & it does not play nicely with others LOL. john
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