Re: Using Debian to manage a multiple OS machine

On 14/08/24 15:31, The Doctor wrote:

So far, I am liking it.
 I can use Debian to Boot Between Debian and FreeBSD.
 Can Debian grub look after other systems?

it detects at least every other linux flavours, Windows for sure.
Possibly MacOS and related, but I am not sure of this.
The problem is the reverse : do the other OS behave as politely as Debian does ? Windows not at all.
The other linuxes behave differently depending on whether the boot is from a legacy MSDOS MBR or via multiple copies of grub files in a GPT disk.
I have the old setup, and when One distro updates grub and rebuilds initramfs, it installs its own copy that replaces the other.
With the new GPT one can configure both as they were really independend, side by side.
Imvho opinion windows is preferably run inside a virtual machine. Win11 runs very well virtualized, and does not break anything outside. Files can be shared among guest and host. VMWare manages this really smoothly (with aggressive caching and delayed committing to the network-disk).
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