On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2015-08-27, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal <mcatu...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >>> I've had serious problems in the past getting to to install on a partition >>> and gave up. Is that bug fixed? It insists on installing on the MBR which is >>> unacceptable. >> >> It's not a bug, and it won't be "fixed". Installing on a partition is >> simply not supported. > > So, grub2 refuses to share power and cooperate with another bootloader. > Bill Gates would be pround.
What a dumb, ignorant comment. Installation to a partition does not work due to technical limitations, and the grub developers have no interest in spending time working around them. They don't give a crap about taking over your PC. > For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a > pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy. grub can be configured to boot multiple linux distros from a single config file. Generating said config file can be a bit of work, but it's definitely doable.
