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From: Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:22:43
Message-Id: CAOdo=SzwGUx5LV5WsyFocPmsxeZK5UsnXe01bQ2BvdsCQyT3uw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 by Peter Humphrey
1 On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Thursday 27 August 2015 08:49:13 Mike Gilbert wrote:
3 >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal <mcatudal@×××××××.net>
4 >>>
5 >>> I've had serious problems in the past getting [grub2] to install on a
6 >>> partition and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insists on installing on the
7 >>> MBR which is unacceptable.
8 >>
9 >> It's not a bug, and it won't be "fixed". Installing on a partition is
10 >> simply not supported.
11 >
12 > So now grub2 is insisting on being the only boot manager present. That doesn't
13 > sound like the Linux way to me.
14
15 Linux is horrendously restrictive; you can only boot from one kernel at a time!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>