[CentOS] Installing CentOS7 boot loader into the /boot partition
Fred Smith
fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Thu Jul 17 13:01:57 UTC 2014
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 01:05:01AM -0400, 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 ?
>
I thought I saw a section in the Release Notes that said Anaconda will
no longer install the boot loader in a partition, as the loader has
grown big enough that it runs the risk of overwriting other info in
the partition. But I could be wrong...
> 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.
>
> 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.
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