On 12/04/2013 11:57 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-12-04 11:48 (GMT-0200) [email protected] composed:
Jean-Claude Vanier escreveu:
Because, in some cases, grub2 doesn't install in root partition while
grub legacy does.
Must be some misconfiguration.
That "misconfiguration" is upstream policy. Its policy is Grub2
belongs on MBR only, with dire warnings that your children's children
and their parents and cousins and friends will all become slaves to
doom should you choose such blasphemy as to install it to a partition.
Yes that is Grub2's policy but it is widely ignored. Many Linux distros
do allow for their installers to install Grub2 to partition. I have done
so with Fedora and openSuSE. We also have 'kcm-grub2' in our own repos
which will do exactly that (after install) among other things. It's also
quite easy to install Grub2 to partition from cli after install.
Perhaps users keep asking for this is because they are used to being
able to do so elsewhere.
My opinion is that OpenMandriva should also ignore upstream policy as
impractical and a burden to OpenMandriva users and allow to install
Grub2 to partitions on installer.
But then what I do is heresy. I install Grub2 to root partitions and use
Grub legacy with chainloading to multi-boot various Linux OS's. This way
I can test/observe the behavior of Grub2 for every OS not just one.
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Thanks,
Ben
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