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From: Michel Catudal <mcatudal@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 21:48:31
Message-Id: 55E22896.1080600@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 by Neil Bothwick
1 Le 2015-08-29 16:56, Neil Bothwick a écrit :
2 > On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:00:51 -0400, Michel Catudal wrote:
3 >
4 >>> I'm installing openSUSE 13.2 into a VM right now and the *default*
5 >>> location for installing GRUB2 is a partition! So what's all the fuss
6 >>> about?
7 >> Not all distributions are Microsoft type. Fedora comes to mind.
8 > WTF are you on about? You complain that GRUB2 can't install to a
9 > partition, and call such restrictions Microsoft-like. I point out that
10 > openSUSE does indeed install GRUB2 to a partition, just ike you want, and
11 > now you call them Microsoft-like?
12 >
13 > So in your view, installing to the MBR is dictatorial like Microsoft
14 > while installing to a partition like you say you want is also Microsoft
15 > like? I think you should take Alan's advice.
16 >
17 >
18 You should read more carefully, I mentioned that some distributions do not allow it. Someone mentioned that Fedora won't let you.
19 I did succeed with Fedora but not during the normal installation. I have never had problems with SuSE which used to be my favorite
20 before I started using gentoo and funtoo.
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22 Forcing to use only one operating system to control the PC is dictatorial. When I buy a computer I want to be in total control. When I have several OS installed I do not want one of them wiping out my bootloader access.
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24 My main system is gentoo and when I goof on an update I fall back on funtoo until I get time to fix the issue. My other installs are SuSE, Fedora. I also had centos and scientific linux before one of my hard disks died. I will probably install them again.
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26 Matter closed as I am getting bored discussing the issue, since both sides will never agree on the subject there is no point in talking any more about it. Some people just will never understand the necessity for us doing the kind of work I do for the need
27 to have a reliable bootloader that is independant of any OS.
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29 Michel
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34 http://sourceforge.net/projects/suzielinux/