On 7/17/2014 8:40 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 07/17/2014 06:37 AM, Edward Diener wrote: >> Not choosing a bootloader did not work. Without the ability to tell >> the CedntOS7 installation to install its bootloader in my /boot >> partition, I cannot use CentOS7. For me the CentOS7 developers have >> really messed up. > > File a bug with Red Hat's bugzilla; CentOS just rebuilds that source, > and bugs like this must be fixed upstream. I do not blame CentOS. I think it was some Fedora programmers who perpetrated this nonsense, but maybe it was Red Hat. > > There is other discussion around the web on this issue for GRUB2 (which > is where the issue lies). The core is that GRUB2 is quite a bit larger > than GRUB 1, and thus it may or may not be safe to install to a > partition. I am a programmer myself. Gee it must be really hard to determine whether enough space exists in a partition to install the GRUB2 bootloader <g>. > However, you can force it; one such post about doing this is at: > https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/10666/install-grub2-to-a-partition/ Yes I now realize what I can do. Thanks ! > > I'm going to be doing this myself at some point in the near future; I'll > try to remember to fully document what I need to do to make it work. >