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Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

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On 07/20/2017 11:34 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-07-20 2:13 (UTC-0700):
>
>> Felix Miata wrote:
>
>> ...I wanted Jessie on sda1 where I keep my
>> menu.lst and keep things simple.
>
> "Simple" I find impossible in multiboot of any serious extent. Closest thing
> there can be to simple is a master bootloader on a primary partition which only
> the admin ever touches, and is never ever mounted to /boot.
>
>>> All my PCs are multiboot.
>
>> Do you test operating systems?
>
> Yes. I have two functional PCs with as few as 4 OS installed, both using
> software RAID. Most PCs here have upwards of 10 OS, at least two with upwards of
> 25, of which one has more than 40.
>
>>> None of my PCs have any incarnation of Grub* installed on any MBR. Generic MBR
>>> code works.[1]
>
>> And you can still use a menu to boot your systems?
>
> Given multiboot, I can't imagine why you would ask.

Okay, you use a separate partition to install grub, end of story.

Cheers,
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda7
Registered Linux User #380263

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Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-19 11:40 +0200
  Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-19 20:10 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-19 21:50 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-20 09:00 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:40 +0200
          Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2017-07-20 23:40 +0200
            Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-21 10:20 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-19 22:30 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:50 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 07:30 +0200
  Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-19 20:40 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:50 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-21 04:20 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-07-21 10:40 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 11:00 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 07:20 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-21 08:40 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 13:00 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 11:10 +0200
          Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-22 15:00 +0200
            Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 19:40 +0200

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