On 2024-02-23, Wojciech Kuzyszyn <w...@op.pl> wrote: > I guess most (all) of the distro's you are talking about use GRUB (or > at least they allow to do it).
Yes, I belive that they are all now using Grub2. > If that's true, I'm pretty sure you can happily let them overwrite > the GRUB in MBR as many times as they want, since it's the same (or > just probably minor version differences) bootloader. Just make a > copy of /boot/grub/grub.cfg and make sure it's the same on every > partition. That means I have to update all of those grub.cfg files manually every time I install or update a distro. That's a lot of work. > Or, even better, if that's possible right now, make a common /boot > partition and after installing the new distro just merge the > (probably new) /boot/grub/grub.cfg with your old one. "just merge the new grub.cfg file with the old one" is the problem. I tried that for a while: every time a distro got installed, I would add it to the "main" grub config file. Every time a distro got a kernel update, I'd modify the main grub config file. It was a lot more work that my current scheme (and a lot more error prone). > I really think that *should* work! It would work, but maintaining the grub.cfg files is a lot of work. The scheme I'm using now doens't require me to mess with any of the grub.cfg files when distros get updated or installed. -- Grant
