On 2013-10-30, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > I've wondered about this or something similar. Has anyone tried having > each OS install their grub to their partition, rather than the MBR ??? and > then having a separate grub configuration that installs onto the MBR > which lets you chain-load each of the partitions (or LVs or whatever?) > My thinking is that the MBR-level grub will not need to be updated > much, and various OS's machinery built on top of grub to update when > you put a new kernel in, etc., are less likely to trample on each other > (or the MBR) if you have told them (or d-i or whatever) to not install > to the MBR themselves. > > Does that sound sane? > >
Yes, I do exactly that, and have done that on all my computers for years. You can create a small partition to install Grub alone. Install Grub to MBR and later Grub stages to to this ext3 partition. All GNU/Linux distros installed on said system have Grub installed to their own root partitions. (chainload Grub to Grub) Or if it be a great hassle for you to create a separate Grub partition as you now have your drive(s) currently partitioned, just use the first Linux partition that has a GNU/Linux distro installed on the first drive to install Grub MBR and later stages to, and chainload the other Operating Systems installed on drive(s) from there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131104083525.825@0.0.0
