On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 02:53:06PM +0000, D. Joe via talk wrote: >> To the best of my understanding, these tools are built with the assumption >> that one wants to run just the OS that invokes them. >> >> Although the Debian wiki has some hints >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/Grub >> >> this seems to be more direct >> >> https://askubuntu.com/questions/16042/how-to-get-to-the-grub-menu-at-boot-time >> >> Are you hitting shift during boot time to get the grub menu, from which you >> might then be able to select amongst configured choices? >> >> If your successful bringing up the boot-time menu, but it isn't configured >> to offer you the choices after holding down shift, you may have to muck >> around in /etc/default/grub from which update-grub et al seem to take their >> lead. >> >> Take some care to dig into the boot time menu, I'm starting to see only the >> default (eg, the most recently installed OS) as the obvious choice at the >> grub top level menu during boot time, with other options buried in a >> submenu. (Sorry not to be more specific about how those appear--I'm favoring >> a quicker response over booting up a VM to see more exactly what the strings >> presented are). > > Certainly OSs like Debian believe they own /boot and that packaged files > go in there. In general it is easiest to just keep it part of the root > filesystem. The EFI boot partition on the other hand is shared by all > OSs on the system. There is rarely a good reason to make a separate > partition for /boot these days. Encrypted rootfs is one case or root > on LVM, but other than that, not really. > OK - - - good to know. For many years it was /boot, / (or /root), /usr, /var, /tmp, swap, /usr/local and /home. I've had enough issues because / was too small, ditto for /usr. So on a new system I can drop /boot and only add /efi or ????
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