On 02/25/2018 02:35 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Sat, 2018-02-24 at 14:18 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:On 02/24/2018 01:59 PM, Dan Norton wrote:[snip] In my case, there are multiple debian installations and theinstallerpositions the last installation at the top of the *grub* menu. This makes sense.Not always. I'm continually doing installs, tweaking them in one way or another. The last install is the one most likely to "crash and burn". I solve the problem by having grub installed ONLY on first partition of my ONLY hard disk. I'd love to see an os-prober which created menu entries in partition number order.Why not send a patch which adds this as a (perhaps only preseedable or certainly very low priority) option then?
Because I don't have the skill set. That's why I took the brute force approach.
You could also (I think) have grub installed by the installer to the individual partitions and then have your primary grub installed in the MBR configured to chain load to those.
I've seen chain loading mentioned, but never had need to understand it. Time for some reading. Thank you.