On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:24:31 +0100
Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:34:30 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> > 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'm installing openSUSE 13.2 into a VM right now and the *default*
> location for installing GRUB2 is a partition! So what's all the fuss
> about?

Arch's wiki has the best explanation I could find of why it's
discouraged, along with the warnings grub itself displays when you do
it anyway.

<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#Install_to_partition_or_partitionless_disk>







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