I use rEFInd as my boot manager and sometimes I like to dual boot a new linux distro (just to try out) which I install with a live USB. Unfortunately, after installing, GRUB has always taken the reigns and it becomes a slight inconvenience to get back to rEFInd every time.

Is there some trick that can request grub not to install?

[What prompted me to ask was I tried KaOS yesterday, and during installation it asked what bootloader i wanted and included the option for ‘none’.]

  • lemmyvoreEnglish
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    3 months ago

    GRUB 2 is so incredibly bloated and convoluted when it really doesn’t need to be

    Heh. Because back when LILO was the standard bootloader people wanted something modern that could boot off everything and could support new tech indefinitely. And then it kind of got out of hand. Ironically, Grub still can’t boot into a generic ISO without loading all of it in RAM.

    Grub is the systemd of bootloaders… it’s large and complex and can do anything but occasionally someone will say “I don’t need it to do everything, how about something smaller that only does this and this”.