Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie
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.
> Why do you think it would have been better to have used grub from SUSE
> than from Ubuntu?
Grub Legacy? Grub2? When, 7-10 years ago? Trusty's? (and why did you choose
Jessie for a Haswell?)
I thought Grub Legacy was last available from Ubuntu too many moons ago to
consider for any recent distros. OTOH, Grub Legacy with Gfxboot from openSUSE is
a dream for multiboot, and supports EXT4, which Debian's does not, which in turn
probably means Ubuntu's does not. With a new HD and a new PC, I initialize Grub
using Knoppix, but once I have an openSUSE on it, I switch it.
Since I rarely actually use Grub2, I have no basis to suggest whether openSUSE's
might be preferable to Ubuntu's. Does Ubuntu's have something Jessie's doesn't
that you need?
To be clear, in MBR systems I only ever install DOS or OS/2 on a primary
partition. All other OS go on logicals. Except for one ancient PC that has only
WinXP on it (which I did not install), at least one primary is always EXT2 with
Grub Legacy and little else, unless the disk is a pure data-only disk, in which
case its MBR sector is empty but for the partition table.
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