[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht wrote: > The only other idea I had was to install 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht 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

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards 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

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-02-23, Wols Lists wrote: > On 23/02/2024 00:28, Grant Edwards wrote: >> In my experience, 's bootloader does not boot other >> installations by calling other bootloaders. It does so by rummaging >> through all of the other partitions looking for kernel images, >> intird files, grub.cfg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-23 Thread Wols Lists
On 23/02/2024 00:28, Grant Edwards wrote: In my experience, 's bootloader does not boot other installations by calling other bootloaders. It does so by rummaging through all of the other partitions looking for kernel images, intird files, grub.cfg files, etc. It then adds menu entries to the

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-02-23, Michael wrote: > The problem starts if/when kernel images are overwritten by > successive Linux OS distros. This is likely when derivatives of the > same main distros e.g. Ubuntu all create a directory called > /EFI/ubuntu/ in the ESP and drop their kernels & initrd images in >

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-02-23, Wojciech Kuzyszyn 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-23 Thread Michael
On Friday, 23 February 2024 00:28:59 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-02-22, Wol wrote: > > On 22/02/2024 21:45, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I've been reading up on UEFI, and it doesn't seem to be any > >> better. People complain about distro's stomping on each other's files > >> in the ESP