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phb
Joined: 10 Feb 2017
#1
I've just carried out a test installation of antiX and noticed that the installer doesn't appear to allow a separate boot partition. This is not a major problem, but I would like to know if this is a bug, a feature or my incompetence. Anyone?
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#2
incompetence - nice and classy!

Do you plan to annoy the devs with all your posts, or just your first one?
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#3
anticapitalista wrote:incompetence - nice and classy!

Do you plan to annoy the devs with all your posts, or just your first one?

dude he said"his incompetence"...

um...that would be a feature i guess. Our installer is pretty simple.
anticapitalista
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#4
Whoops so he did. Apologies to the poster. Time for me to rest I guess.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#5
Well, during the install procedure it asks if you wanna install grub to mbr or root file system on root partition.

Sooooo. To make it difficult. Make a /boot partition during the install procedure using gparted during the live run.
When grub asks where do you want it. Root or MBR. Pick root.

Then go into /boot/grub again after rebooting into a live session after a install.

Cut and copy /boot folder into /boot partition.
Make sure /boot partition is flagged as boot using gparted.

Do a sudo update-grub. See if things are seen I guess. Might work. Might not. I never done this.

I don't know either if some kind of bootloader needs to be on the mbr to chainload boot files from /boot partition either.
I aint to bright on this.
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Shay
Joined: 20 Apr 2015
#6
Do like we do for EUFI
Make a 100MB Fat32 partition Make it bootable, install to SDA2 and have Grub install to mbr.
Works for me.