On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:24:31 +0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:34:30 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > I know it has worked in the past, and I know that recent versions of > > some distros that use Grub2 still allow you to pick a partition for > > the bootloader during the install. > > I'm installing openSUSE 13.2 into a VM right now and the *default* > location for installing GRUB2 is a partition! So what's all the fuss > about? Arch's wiki has the best explanation I could find of why it's discouraged, along with the warnings grub itself displays when you do it anyway. <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#Install_to_partition_or_partitionless_disk>
