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

[Lamar Owen]

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.

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.  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/

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.