where to install grub

[Tylerebowers]

I have 4 drives ssd/hdd, One for Windows(ssd Boot Drive), One for Windows storage, One for Hackintosh, and One for Kali Linux but I haven't installed kali yet. So My question is What drive Would I install the Grub Bootloader On?

[Guest]

18 minutes ago, Tylerebowers said:

I have 4 drives ssd/hdd, One for Windows(ssd Boot Drive), One for Windows storage, One for Hackintosh, and One for Kali Linux but I haven't installed kali yet. So My question is What drive Would I install the Grub Bootloader On?

The one with kalli, and have it boot from that drive. Then grub should allow to boot from the others too.

You can also just use the boot options menu of your motherboard to select drive/os. That's what I do.

[Willowwizard]

Preferably you'd install it onto the fastest boot media you have, in this case, the SSD. The problem is, you also have Windows' boot loader installed on it. So really your only solution here is to install it onto any of the others

[Wild Penquin]

UEFI or Legacy?

 

With UEFI, you might 1) not use Grub at all or 2) Install Grub on the EFI partition.

 

Don't use Legacy if your computer is recent enough to use UEFI.

 

If you really need to use Legacy, it doesn't really matter where you install Grub. Grub itself is quite agnostic. It makes sense to install it on the HD which has the Linux distribution, somehow (one obvious benefit is that if a HD fails, you will have a more intact setup, possibly...)

[ViscountStyx]

I hereby proclaim the rules of grub installation devices.

 

1.) Thou shalt not install grub over a Windows Bootloader, unless dual booting and this is the only drive in the machine.

2.) Thou shalt not install grub on a device which doesn't have the linux operating system, exception in point 1, unless you know what the hell you're doing.

3.) Thou shalt install multiple instances of grub on RAID1 mirrored drives.  (otherwise it's fairly pointless having the RAID if you can't boot it without throwing in a rescue disk and chrooting to install grub on another drive......)

 

Submissions for the rules welcome!