On 2015-08-27, Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> You beat me to it. Yes GRUB2 can be installed on a partition instead
> of the MBR and yes it complains about it. However, it works
> regardless.
I know it has worked in the past, and I know that recent versions of
some distros that use Grub2 still allow you to pick a partition for
the bootloader during the install.
> I have done it a couple of times so far, just as you describe above.
> In my case I chainload GRUB2 with NTLDR or modern equivalent and this
> is how I know that the MBR was not being overwritten by it.
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