I can understand that default grub2 policy chooses to install only in mbr, because in some cases it simply refuses to install. Example, it won't install on ext4 partition if it recognizes it as ext2. That's at least my experience with the version of grub used in 2013.0. In such case, grub legacy installs without problem. jcl
2013/12/5 Ben Bullard <[email protected]>: > 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. > > -- > Thanks, > Ben > ------------------------- > OM-QA mailing list > [email protected] > http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-qa-openmandriva.org > > > >
