On 2017-04-22 01:21, Robin Klitscher wrote:
OK; without making a fuss about it, I think I have the hijacking problem, or at least a facsimile thereof. Multiboot: Leap 42.1, Leap 42.2 and Tumbleweed. (also Windows 7, but that's not relevant here.) Legacy BIOS/MBR, not UEFI/GPT.
Each of the Leaps was a fresh install, with Grub2 in the MBR, an arrangement that had worked well for me over many previous multi installations.
It can not work. It may seem to work. You can only install one grub in the MBR. Only one. The next system you install overwrites the previous one. Not completely, because part of grub resides in the /boot directory of the partition.
It all works, but not it has done in the past, and not as I had wanted it. Any suggestions (simple ones!) on how to fix this so that "ownership" of the Grub2 multiboot processes is shifted from the Leap 42.1 installation to 42.2?
No simple ones. There are some variations, but Grub most be installed in the respective boot partitions of the systems you have. One, or none, can be in the MBR. It also depends on using traditional partitions or GPT. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)