On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 6:27:14 PM Michel Catudal 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. > > Yes and no, at least it can be a pain. I remember running into that and got it > to work after several hours, unfortunately I forgot how. It may have been that > it writes to both the mbr and the partition so you can restore the old mbr and > still boot the partition. It also treats removable media and HDs different. > It's hard to remember because I tried so many things.
You have to use "--force" but the grub developers consider using it unreliable because you then have to make use of block lists.
