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

2024-02-26 Thread eric
On 2/26/24 04:57, gentoo-u...@krasauskas.dev wrote: You could also write a script that keeps all the distros up to date from within whichever one you're currently booted by mounting subvolumes to /mnt or wherever, chrooting in and running the update. To avoid grub not being able to point to a

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

2024-02-26 Thread gentoo-user
Since this is a fairly custom task, I would approach it with a custom solution. - GPT - systemd-boot - One /boot partition - One BTRFS-on-LUKS partition (formatted using the distro with the oldest kernel) - {@root,@home,@var,@srv,@opt}-{distro1,distro2,distro3} subvolumes - Potentially

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

2024-02-22 Thread Wol
On 22/02/2024 19:17, Grant Edwards wrote: However, the choice to install bootloaders in partitions instead of the MBR has been removed from most (all?) of the common installers. This forces me to jump through hoops when installing a new Linux distro: File a bug! If that's true, it basically

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

2024-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
For many years, I've used a hard drive on which I have 8-10 Linux distros installed -- each in a separate (single) partition. There is also a single swap partition (used by all of the different Linux installations). There is also a small partition devoted only to the "master" instance of Grub