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On 2015-08-27, Jeremi Piotrowski <jeremi.piotrowski@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I much prefer chainloading and giving each distro free reign over their |
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> own boot loader. That way they can pretend they're the boss and work the |
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> way they were intended to and I can supervise things from gentoo. |
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Yup. I've got up to 12 Linux distros on some machines, and I've found |
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that approach works far, far better that allowing multiple distros to |
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fight over who gets to configure a single bootloader. A small grub |
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partition for the files needed by grub1 in the MBR, and then each |
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partition is a world unto itself with it's own bootloader that gets |
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managed by whatever distro is installed on that partion. |
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That used to be trivial, but it's getting a more difficult to do that |
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these with some distros refusing to install a bootloader anywhere |
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other than the MBR. [That's just one of an increasing number of |
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reasons for my increasing dislike of Fedora/CentOS/RH.] It's still a |
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lot easier than letting multiple distros all think they own the MBR |
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bootloader. I've never had much luck with that at all. |
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Grant |