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<info>
<title xml:id="setupBootloader-ti1">Bootloader main options</title>
</info>
<!-- 2012-08-12 Copied this page, setupBootloader.xml, from setupBootloaderBeginner.xml and REMOVED the string "Beginner" everywhere, except in this sentence.
2013-3-30 Removed refernce to bootloader expert page and suggest using grub2 where other grub2 systems exist-->
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<para xml:id="setupBootloader-pa1" revision="4">If you prefer different
bootloader settings to those chosen automatically by the installer, you can
change them here.</para>
<para xml:id="setupBootloader-pa2" revision="4">You may already have another
operating system on your machine, in which case you need to decide whether
to add Mageia to your existing bootloader, or allow Mageia to create a new
one.</para>
<tip>
<para revision="2" xml:id="setupBootloader-pa3">The Mageia graphical menus
are nice :)</para>
</tip>
<section xml:id="usingMageiaBootloader">
<info>
<title xml:id="usingMageiaBootloader-ti2">Using a Mageia
bootloader</title>
</info>
<para revision="3" xml:id="setupBootloader-pa4">By default, Mageia writes
a new GRUB (legacy) bootloader into the MBR (Master Boot Record) of your
first hard drive. If you already have other operating systems installed,
Mageia attempts to add them to your new Mageia boot menu.</para>
<para revision="3">Mageia now also offers GRUB2 as an optional bootloader
in addition to GRUB legacy and Lilo.</para>
<warning>
<para revision="3" xml:id="setupBootloader-pa6">Linux systems which use
the GRUB2 bootloader are not currently supported by GRUB (legacy) and
will not be recognised if the default GRUB bootloader is used.</para>
<para revision="3">The best solution here is to use the GRUB2 bootloader
which is available at the Summary page during installation.</para>
</warning>
</section>
<section xml:id="usingExistingBootloader">
<info>
<title revision="2" xml:id="usingExistingBootloader-ti4">Using an
existing bootloader</title>
</info>
<para revision="3" xml:id="setupBootloader-pa46">If you decide to use an
existing bootloader then you will need to remember to STOP at the summary
page during the installation and click the Bootloader
<guibutton>Configure</guibutton> button, which will allow you to change
the bootloader install location.</para>
<para revision="1" xml:id="setupBootloader-pa47">Do not select a device
e.g."sda", or you will overwrite your existing MBR. You must select the
root partition that you chose during the partitioning phase earlier, e.g.
sda7.</para>
<para xml:id="setupBootloader-pa48" revision="1">To be clear, sda is a
device, sda7 is a partition on that device.</para>
<tip>
<para revision="1" xml:id="setupBootloader-pa48a">Go to tty2 with
Ctrl+Alt+F2 and type <literal>df</literal> to check where your
<literal>/</literal> (root) partition is. Ctrl+Alt+F7 takes you back to
the installer screen.</para>
</tip>
<para revision="2" xml:id="setupBootloader-pa49">The exact procedure for
adding your Mageia system to an existing bootloader is beyond the scope of
this help, however in most cases it will involve running the relevant
bootloader installation program which should detect and add it
automatically. See the documentation for the operating system in
question.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="advancedOptionBootloader">
<info>
<title revision="2" xml:id="advancedOptionBootloader-ti5">Bootloader
advanced option</title>
</info>
<para revision="3" xml:id="setupBootloader-pa52">If you have very limited
disk space for the <literal>/</literal> partition that contains
<literal>/tmp</literal>, click on <guibutton>Advanced</guibutton> and
check the box for <guilabel>Clean /tmp at each boot</guilabel>. This helps
to maintain some free space.</para>
</section>
</section>
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