Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-07-20 2:13 (UTC-0700): > Felix Miata wrote:
> ...I wanted Jessie on sda1 where I keep my > menu.lst and keep things simple. "Simple" I find impossible in multiboot of any serious extent. Closest thing there can be to simple is a master bootloader on a primary partition which only the admin ever touches, and is never ever mounted to /boot. >> All my PCs are multiboot. > Do you test operating systems? Yes. I have two functional PCs with as few as 4 OS installed, both using software RAID. Most PCs here have upwards of 10 OS, at least two with upwards of 25, of which one has more than 40. >> None of my PCs have any incarnation of Grub* installed on any MBR. Generic >> MBR >> code works.[1] > And you can still use a menu to boot your systems? Given multiboot, I can't imagine why you would ask. > Why do you think it would have been better to have used grub from SUSE > than from Ubuntu? Grub Legacy? Grub2? When, 7-10 years ago? Trusty's? (and why did you choose Jessie for a Haswell?) I thought Grub Legacy was last available from Ubuntu too many moons ago to consider for any recent distros. OTOH, Grub Legacy with Gfxboot from openSUSE is a dream for multiboot, and supports EXT4, which Debian's does not, which in turn probably means Ubuntu's does not. With a new HD and a new PC, I initialize Grub using Knoppix, but once I have an openSUSE on it, I switch it. Since I rarely actually use Grub2, I have no basis to suggest whether openSUSE's might be preferable to Ubuntu's. Does Ubuntu's have something Jessie's doesn't that you need? To be clear, in MBR systems I only ever install DOS or OS/2 on a primary partition. All other OS go on logicals. Except for one ancient PC that has only WinXP on it (which I did not install), at least one primary is always EXT2 with Grub Legacy and little else, unless the disk is a pure data-only disk, in which case its MBR sector is empty but for the partition table. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
