After skimming through the manual think I like the "configfile" method. I will have to read some more.
Thanks!!! On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com>wrote: > > On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de> wrote: > > > On 11/26/2013 11:56 PM, poma wrote: > >> On 26.11.2013 23:18, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> > >>> That's because your setup is wrong. If I were you, I would install a > >>> bootloader into the boot sector of each of your /boot partitions and > >>> chainload them from your MBR. > >> > >> Are you kidding? > > > > I guess, he isn't. It's what I recommend, too. It's the only way to make > sure the different OSes/distros bootloaders do not interfere with each > other. > > Well it's not a good recommendation to do what is explicitly not > recommended by GRUB devs. grub-install spits out a warning if you try to do > this, by the way. It requires the user pass --force for it to work. And > --force also isn't supported by anaconda for 4-5 Fedora releases now. It > can't be used if /boot is on XFS or LVM or md RAID, all of which lack boot > loader padding areas, so fewer configurations are supported. You're better > off using extlinux if you want something that supports installation to a > partition. > > The earlier suggestion to have the primary grub.cfg include an entry using > configfile to point to each distribution's grub.cfg is the better way to > handle this. Each distribution updates only their own grub.cfg. And as far > as I'm aware, no distribution ever re-runs grub-install, so the existing > bootloader is only going to be "interfered" with by users reinstalling the > bootloader or installing a new OS. > > > Chris Murphy > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| pepeb...@gmail.com ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.
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