On Friday, 8 March 2024 23:24:02 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2024-02-22, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > For many years, I've used a hard drive on which I have 8-10 Linux
> > distros installed -- each in a separate (single) partition.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Is there an easier way to do this?
>
>
On Tuesday, 27 February 2024 00:12:07 GMT Mark Knecht wrote:
> I have no experience beyond three operating systems on a single machine
> but if you grabbed just 2 or 3 USB flash drives then I would think you
> could test it pretty easily. I believe the UEFI boot procedures are
> storing a unique
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 4:45 PM Grant Edwards
wrote:
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> On 2024-02-26, Wol wrote:
> > On 26/02/2024 20:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
> >
> >> The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like
> >> that and just buy a dozen USB flash drives.
> >>
> > And then, if USB isn't the
On 26/02/2024 20:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2024-02-26, eric wrote:
I agree, using the custom.cfg file would not work if needing to boot
different kernels of the same OS and those kernels were being updated.
The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like
that and just
On 2/26/24 11:01, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2024-02-26, eric wrote:
On 2/26/24 04:57, gentoo-u...@krasauskas.dev wrote:
You could also write a script that keeps all the distros up to date
from within whichever one you're currently booted by mounting
subvolumes to /mnt or wherever, chrooting in
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:52 PM Grant Edwards
wrote:
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> On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards <
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> The simple solution is to give up on multi-booting a dozen different
> >> distros on a single disk and
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards
wrote:
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>
> The simple solution is to give up on multi-booting a dozen different
> distros on a single disk and buy a pocketful of USB 3 thumb drives.
>
Given performance does drop a bit and there can be issues with allocating
hardware, why not use
On 23/02/2024 00:28, Grant Edwards wrote:
In my experience, 's bootloader does not boot other
installations by calling other bootloaders. It does so by rummaging
through all of the other partitions looking for kernel images, intird
files, grub.cfg files, etc. It then adds menu entries to the
On Friday, 23 February 2024 00:28:59 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2024-02-22, Wol wrote:
> > On 22/02/2024 21:45, Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> I've been reading up on UEFI, and it doesn't seem to be any
> >> better. People complain about distro's stomping on each other's files
> >> in the ESP
Hello!
I guess most (all) of the distro's you are talking about use GRUB (or
at least they allow to do it). If that's true, I'm pretty sure you can
happily let them overwrite the GRUB in MBR as many times as they want,
since it's the same (or just probably minor version differences)
bootloader.
On 22/02/2024 21:45, Grant Edwards wrote:
I've been reading up on UEFI, and it doesn't seem to be any
better. People complain about distro's stomping on each other's files
in the ESP partiton and multiple distro's using the same name in the
boot slots stored in NVM. And then the boot choice
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