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On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:24:31 +0100 |
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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:34:30 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > I know it has worked in the past, and I know that recent versions of |
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> > some distros that use Grub2 still allow you to pick a partition for |
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> > the bootloader during the install. |
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> I'm installing openSUSE 13.2 into a VM right now and the *default* |
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> location for installing GRUB2 is a partition! So what's all the fuss |
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> about? |
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Arch's wiki has the best explanation I could find of why it's |
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discouraged, along with the warnings grub itself displays when you do |
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it anyway. |
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<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#Install_to_partition_or_partitionless_disk> |
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