From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2017-04-24 13:44, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 04/23/2017 10:33 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
      
   >> Why don't you disable os-prober, and then create entries in   
   >> /boot/grub2/custom.cfg so that it chainloads grub1 of your 13.2 install?   
   >   
   > I have to go for some medical checkup but I think I'm onto what's going   
   > wrong. I'll look into your suggestions tonight. One thing for sure is   
   > that I want any boot-loader to boot ALL installations on a disk and not   
   > just one, so that os-probing is realy unavoidable.  I'm perfectly   
   > capable of writing my own menu files but then grub2 shoud provide for   
   > that as grub1 did.   
      
   I have found out that it is better to disable os-prober: it takes a long   
   time to run during updates, and the resulting menu is messy.   
      
   What I do is:   
      
   Decide which distribution, which partition is going to be the main one.   
   This one is the only one that installs in the MBR, and always the first   
   one to start grub. This grub is the boss, and is used to start other   
   distributions, but via chainloading their grubs. Never looking at the   
   kernels.   
      
   So I write once a custom grub2 file, and be done. I don't need to touch   
   it again unless I format a partition and change its UUID.   
      
   Each other system has its own partition and caters to its own grub or   
   whatever, installed only in its partition, never in the MBR.   
      
      
   > When I first installed 13.2 on partition-9, I let it install grub2 just   
   > so I could see how grub2 does things. When I saw the menu that grub2   
   > next booted with I wanted to puke so I installed grub1 and have been   
   > using it exclusively except for occasional excursions to grub2-land.   
      
   Grub2 menu is quite nice if you disable os-prober.   
      
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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