Re: multiboot 2 HD

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> On 7/15/25 2:45 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:
> > 
> >> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
> >> From: "Steven I Usdansky via users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: "users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: "Steven I Usdansky" <usdanskys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: Re: multiboot 2 HD
> >>
> >> Each of my three drives is bootable has its own EFI partition and multiple Linux installations. Each /EFI/fedora/grub.cfg file is manually maintained as it gets overwritten when I update grub, and each Linux installation has its own /boot/grub2/grub.cfg.
> >>
> >> The /EFI/fedora/grub.cfg files are all basically the same, with entries that chainload each installation's /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file along with entries to chainload each drive's /EFI/fedora/grub.cfg.
> >>
> > I guess that it is fine for a UEFI machine.
> > 
> > But for an non UEFI machine?
> > On sda I have a /boot 1
> > the grub.cfg /boot/grub2 (sda2) generated by fedora 1 is fine
> > 
> > On sdb I have another /boot 2
> > the grub.cfg (sdb5) generated by fedora 2 is also fine
> > (of course they are different files)
> > 
> > But the bizarre thing is that the bootloader uses /boot 2
> > Why?
> 
> The last one installed will be the one used.  You need to run grub 
> install from the first one again if you want that to be the default.
This is what I would have thought
However, 
grub2-install /dev/sda
Provides an error.
What do you mean by grub install ?
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