On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:52 PM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards < grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> The simple solution is to give up on multi-booting a dozen different > >> distros on a single disk and buy a pocketful of USB 3 thumb drives. > >> > > > > Given performance does drop a bit and there can be issues with allocating > > hardware, why not use Virtualbox which allows you to run both your base > > distro and then as many of the others as your hardware can handle as VMs? > > The machine is used for testing PCI and PCI-express boards and their > drivers. I don't really trust PCI passthrough (especially when it > comes to interrupt handling) enought to do such testing in a > VM. IFAICT, it's very rare for customers to use VMs. If customers do > start to use VMs, then we'll have to test with VMs also. > In that specific use case I completely agree.
The only other idea I had was to install <new distro> to a different disk and then use something like Clonezilla to move it to the partition you want it in on your system. While I suspect you were being sarcastic I do not think any solution that involves a 'pocketful of USB 3 thumb drives' will be satisfying. Wishing you luck, Mark
