Does anyone have an opinion or any advice regarding the location of Grub on the hard drive?
I ask this because I recently used the Boot-Repair-Disk from over at Sourceforge ( https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/ ) to re-install my Grub and the Boot-Repair-Disk warned that Grub was not at the beginning of my partition.
I have a 1TB platter drive divided into 4 partitions - approximately as follows;
sda1 496 - GB boot - Linux Mint
sda2 - 8.6 GB Linux swap - lazy slacker not doing much
sda3 467 GB - Play - 2nd Linux install (dual boot)
sda4 28 GB - "Test"
sda has my Mint install which is my 'daily driver'. sdb currently has Blue Collar Linux on it but is used for installing and testing various distros. sdc is for 'just in case' or perhaps for installing a third small distro - currently unused.
Everything is working well and like I want it to. Grub is currently installed on sda.
Is there any benefit or logical reason to move the Grub to the beginning of the sda partition?
Should I make a separate /boot partition and put Grub there?
If everything is working fine should I just leave well enough alone?
Or should I tweak it 'till I break it? ( lookin' at you @Socket of Davis )
Edited to fix partition numbering scheme :/
I ask this because I recently used the Boot-Repair-Disk from over at Sourceforge ( https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/ ) to re-install my Grub and the Boot-Repair-Disk warned that Grub was not at the beginning of my partition.
I have a 1TB platter drive divided into 4 partitions - approximately as follows;
sda1 496 - GB boot - Linux Mint
sda2 - 8.6 GB Linux swap - lazy slacker not doing much
sda3 467 GB - Play - 2nd Linux install (dual boot)
sda4 28 GB - "Test"
sda has my Mint install which is my 'daily driver'. sdb currently has Blue Collar Linux on it but is used for installing and testing various distros. sdc is for 'just in case' or perhaps for installing a third small distro - currently unused.
Everything is working well and like I want it to. Grub is currently installed on sda.
Is there any benefit or logical reason to move the Grub to the beginning of the sda partition?
Should I make a separate /boot partition and put Grub there?
If everything is working fine should I just leave well enough alone?
Or should I tweak it 'till I break it? ( lookin' at you @Socket of Davis )
Edited to fix partition numbering scheme :/
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