On Jan 7, 2013, at 2:41 PM, Gene Czarcinski <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> And then if a distribution is deleted from the system, how is this >> discovered, and the old entry in the primary grub.cfg removed? Messy. > The hardware systems have four or five software systems on each. It is not > so much of deleting an distribution as much as just ignoring it. Disk space > really is pretty inexpensive these days.
The case of natively booting/rebooting different OS's/distributions on BIOS is difficult. For VM, I think maybe a simpler approach like syslinux is better, which understands Btrfs I believe. And for UEFI, I think a simpler approach is something like rEFInd or gummiboot, as boot manager, and then for various linux distributions to be built with EFI_STUB. >> >>> I do not actually use a grub partition but, instead, a minimal system with >>> grub2 and installation into the MBR. >> grub's core.img can accept a baked in grub.cfg > If this was a true production situation then this would be a good choice but > I am dealing with more of a laboratory environment with things that change a > lot. Yeah currently it's difficult to do multiple OS native booting. Chris Murphy-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
