On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 13:06:16 -0500
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
If I'm successful that will change.
My goal is to learn enough about *nix too have the detail control
of Slackware or "Linux from Scratch" with the advantages of
Debian standard repositories.
If retirement is not for learning, what use is it?
There are two chunks of storage for grub: the files, stored in a normal
filesystem and available under /boot, and the bootloader itself, which
generally lives in the drive MBR, but can also live in a partition. The
bootloader is machine code which is stored outside any filesystem.
During expert installation, there are two relevant options: if during
the partition allocation stage, you ask for a separate /boot partition,
you will get this and the grub files will be stored there. You will
later be asked whether you want to install the bootloader in the MBR, or
in the root partition, or not at all, and it will be pointed out that
you will need to make your own arrangements for booting if you choose
the last.