On 2015-08-27, Jeremi Piotrowski <jeremi.piotrow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I much prefer chainloading and giving each distro free reign over their > own boot loader. That way they can pretend they're the boss and work the > way they were intended to and I can supervise things from gentoo. Yup. I've got up to 12 Linux distros on some machines, and I've found that approach works far, far better that allowing multiple distros to fight over who gets to configure a single bootloader. A small grub partition for the files needed by grub1 in the MBR, and then each partition is a world unto itself with it's own bootloader that gets managed by whatever distro is installed on that partion. That used to be trivial, but it's getting a more difficult to do that these with some distros refusing to install a bootloader anywhere other than the MBR. [That's just one of an increasing number of reasons for my increasing dislike of Fedora/CentOS/RH.] It's still a lot easier than letting multiple distros all think they own the MBR bootloader. I've never had much luck with that at all. -- Grant
