From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Saturday 26 May 2012 04:56, Adam conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   >> I was thinking that   
   >> I could use mkfs to create the filesystem for each distro while using   
   >> my "production" distro, which would (I hope) eliminate the need to   
   >> re-create it during installation.   
   >   
   > Of course.  ext4 is ext4 is ext4 is ext4... ;-)   
      
   Ah, good.  That would save me about an hour of waiting during each   
   install... unless the installer insists on running mkfs anyway.   
      
   > Yes, but as I gather, ext4 support in grub-legacy is a backport from   
   > grub2.   
      
   For each distro, I'm planning on installing grub (or whatever boot   
   loader it uses) in the root partition, not the MBR, and I'm sure each   
   distro's own boot loader can handle the distro's own filesystem.  In   
   sda's MBR I have GAG boot manager so all I have to do is to create a new   
   entry in it for each installation.   
      
   Adam   
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