I tried to install the BootManager, but the limitations mentioned in the docs blocked the install. I think this part:
> BootManager isn't yet tested very well and still has a few restrictions that it will complain about if they aren't met: the menu can only be installed on your first harddisk and there has to be a 2KiB space after the Master Boot Record (MBR).
No idea how to create those conditions, the 2KiB space, and since I would have to do it with gparted in Linux anyway this made me install Linux instead first (with grub).
BootManager actually sounded nice - like you describe, I expected it to simply offer me the other OS(s) option(s), and I wasn't even set on installing Linux in the first place on that machine.
To your parenthesis: Yeah, I even had a boot manager on USB once for my PC, so it crossed my mind here, but for a travel laptop this would be a bit uncomfortable.
> BootManager isn't yet tested very well and still has a few restrictions that it will complain about if they aren't met: the menu can only be installed on your first harddisk and there has to be a 2KiB space after the Master Boot Record (MBR).
No idea how to create those conditions, the 2KiB space, and since I would have to do it with gparted in Linux anyway this made me install Linux instead first (with grub).
BootManager actually sounded nice - like you describe, I expected it to simply offer me the other OS(s) option(s), and I wasn't even set on installing Linux in the first place on that machine.
To your parenthesis: Yeah, I even had a boot manager on USB once for my PC, so it crossed my mind here, but for a travel laptop this would be a bit uncomfortable.