Re: Gone are the happy days

I have a test box that I've done same and would like to do the same. I know it's a corner case to have Fedora, openSuse, Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Mageia on small test partitions. It'd be nice to have that setup work out-of-box tough.

What I could see as still problematic with a shared /boot is if distros have different versions of GRUB. When you do the install, each overwrites the other, right? And updates might create the wrong versioned config too, right? Excuse my ignorance if I'm confused...

I'll probably still end up installing one minimal to its own partition with its GRUB to sda. And then each distro's GRUB to their sda#. Last I looked, some OS's installers (like PC-BSD or other unmentionables) didn't support putting their boot loader not to the MBR. So I'll still need a USB stick to fix the "OS agnostic". Oh well....