[CentOS] Installing CentOS7 boot loader into the /boot partition

[Edward Diener]

On 7/17/2014 1:05 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 7/16/2014 11:55 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> On 07/16/2014 12:22 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
>>> I did not see any way, during the CentOS7 install, to install the
>>> CentOS7 boot loader into the /boot partition rather than to the MBR of a
>>> drive. How does one do this in the installation of CentOS7 ?
>>>
>>>
>> See:
>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/sect-disk-partitioning-setup-x86.html
>> and the section about selecting which disk on which to install the
>> bootloader.  Specifically, there's a 'button' (looks more like a link in
>> the screenshot) called "Full disk summary and bootloader" on the
>> "Installation Destination"**screen, at the bottom.  I haven't tried this
>> yet (but I will soon), but it would seem that by telling it the device
>> on which /boot resides the bootloader will be installed there.
>>
>
> The documentation implies that when you tell it what device the
> bootloader resides on that it will install the bootloader in the MBR of
> that device. Otherwise how would it know where on that device to install
> the bootloader ?
>
> It does say that you may choose not to install a bootloader then another
> application must boot the system. I use such another application (
> Terabyte's BIBM ) so I will try that hoping that booting the code at the
> beginning of the /boot partition will indeed boot CentOS7.

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.

>
> All other Linux distros I have allow you to choose a /boot partition in
> which I can install that distro's boot loader. Then I can direct my own
> boot loader to boot into that /boot partition for a particular distro
> after which the distro's boot menu takes over.
>