> This is not a complete answer but one of my problems is that such > requests don't even suply any kind of reason to go into such installs. > We nerd to consider usecases before even considering using an approach > which is known for some pretty serious problems. Will answer in more > details later.
In my case, the reason is a multiboot setup based on chainloading the indiviual installed OS's bootloaders from a central, primary bootloader. This is easily accomplished by installing the individual OS's bootloaders in their respective "/" or "/boot" partitions. Linux distributions have encouraged this kind of setup over several years - "install boot loader in first sector of root/boot partition" used to be a prominent option somewhere in the installation process (these distributions were usually GRUB 0.9x based - GRUB 0.9x developers didn't seem to have a big issue with stage1_5 being loaded via block lists). Recent GRUB2-based distributions like Fedora have removed this option, and some users are dissatisfied with that. I would like to understand what the actual risk is. So I'd appreciate examples for the "pretty serious problems" you mention. Regards Martin -- Dr. Martin Wilck PRIMERGY System Software Engineer x86 Server Engineering FUJITSU Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 33106 Paderborn, Germany Phone: ++49 5251 525 2796 Fax: ++49 5251 525 2820 Email: martin.wi...@ts.fujitsu.com Internet: http://ts.fujitsu.com Company Details: http://ts.fujitsu.com/imprint _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
