On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 11:32:04AM +1200, John Little wrote: > Rather than juggling partitions, consider using a btrfs. I typically have > four or five different *buntus in separate subvolumes. > > Also, I suggest also installing grub to its own subvolume (or partition), > and manually editing grub.cfg there, using the vmlinuz and initrd.img > symbolic > links so that the entries don't have to be updated frequently. I suggest > using partition labels in /etc/fstab and grub.cfg rather than UUIDs; they're > much more readable. > > If multiple distros have grub installed to update the boot, each tries > to control the boot and confusion is the result. Consider switching to > the grub package that does not automatically update the boot, at least > on all but one install, or none as in my suggestion above.
Thanks for all these thoughts and ideas, I'm slowly working my way towards a workable (for me) solution and every little helps. :-) -- Chris Green
