On Thursday, August 27, 2015 4:47:30 PM James wrote: > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > On 2015-08-27, Mike Gilbert <floppym <at> gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal <mcatudal <at> > comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > >> I've had serious problems in the past getting to to install on > > >> a partition and gave up. Is that bug fixed? > > >> It insists on installing on the MBR which is unacceptable. > > Hmmm. For my purposes (That is creating a PreQualifing Matrix based > on the answers to some questions) it would seem that requiring installation > of Grub on a partition and not the MBR would mean that only Grub-2 can be used. > > > > > It's not a bug, and it won't be "fixed". Installing on a partition is > > > simply not supported. > > So, grub2 refuses to share power and cooperate with another bootloader. > > Bill Gates would be proud. > > Yea there does seem to a lot of that going around. The good news is > there are so many qualified kernel/lowlevel/devicedriver coders > around these days, it's only a matter of time before a serious > fork in the bootloader/kernel world of linux occurs. It just keeps > boiling and roiling, imho. ymmv. > > > > For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a > > pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy. > > So you are saying (trying to read the 'tea leaves' here) that > grub legacy ( grub-static-0.97-r12) will work well on a 64 bit systems, > (u)efi with say multiple drives (> 2T) and Raid-1 configs like btrfs-native > or via lvm?
An EFI 64-bit kernel can only be loaded by a 64-bit EFI bootloader. With Linux I think it doesn't matter because I think even with the EFI stub you get a hybrid kernel that can be booted by a regular bootloader, but things like the EFI framebuffer driver and efivars will not work unless you boot in EFI mode. You can chainload an efi bootloader with grub1 but I think that only emulates EFI, so these things may still not work. And I don't think that's officially supported anymore because there's grub2 for that purpose. > I'm not challenging what you are saying; I'm trying to figure out what > everybody is suggestions to publish the first draft of the PreQualifying > Matrix Questions and the resulting valid choices one can infer. Grub 1vs2 > is a big part of that matrix. > > > curiously, > James > > > > > -- Fernando Rodriguez
