Re: GRUB2 Behavior Question

[Dr. Heiko Pollmeier]

Gruß zuvor !

Does anybody give me a hint where and how to create a separate grub
partition on a MBR based system?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
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Am 30.03.20 um 05:13 schrieb John Little:
> I suggested:
> 
>> picking one install to control grub and uninstalling grub from the others
> 
> Matt Sickler replied:
> 
>> That's not possible since each install are totally independent from
>> each other.
> 
> I suggest then an independent grub install, on its own partition.  When
> I used BIOS/MBR I ended up doing this, after too many grub rescue
> prompts.  It would go for years with minimal attention.  I started with
> the grub.cfg last generated by grub-install (actually grub-mkconfig) and
> pared away the fancy stuff gradually, till there was little left.  The
> generated grub.cfg on my Kubuntu 19.10 is 440 lines, and yours need only
> be 20 or so.
> 
> This approach is suggested by the grub 2 manual:
> 
> "those who feel that it would be easier to write grub.cfg directly are
> encouraged to do so"
>