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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:41:35
Message-Id: CAGfcS_mGYwGjef9ANeBQVaLgKYHD-MFE=hps7WfyzDr=UUW9Ug@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 by Tom H
1 On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 >> On Thursday 27 August 2015 08:49:13 Mike Gilbert wrote:
4 >>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal <mcatudal@×××××××.net>
5 >>>>
6 >>>> I've had serious problems in the past getting [grub2] to install on a
7 >>>> partition and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insists on installing on the
8 >>>> MBR which is unacceptable.
9 >>>
10 >>> It's not a bug, and it won't be "fixed". Installing on a partition is
11 >>> simply not supported.
12 >>
13 >> So now grub2 is insisting on being the only boot manager present. That doesn't
14 >> sound like the Linux way to me.
15 >
16 > Linux is horrendously restrictive; you can only boot from one kernel at a time!
17 >
18
19 I get the joke but:
20
21 http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
22 http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page
23
24 --
25 Rich