Grub2 mkconfig

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Feb 23 19:45:20 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 09:40 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> said:
> > Is it a single /boot partition shared by multiple dists?
> > If so, that has always been just an ugly work-around to escape from having
> > to repartition. I prefer individual partitions for each dist plus
> > installing each dist's boot loader in the partition's boot sector and
> > chainloading them from GRUB (which still works with GRUB2).
> 
> That's what I used to do, but it didn't work for me with F16 and GRUB2.
> I get a warning that I shouldn't install GRUB2 to a partition and then
> an error about there not being enough space.

You can use --force to make grub2 install to a partition.
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