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<title xml:id="setupBootloader-ti1">Opsionet kryesore të programit Bootloader</title>
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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>
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<info>
<title xml:id="usingMageiaBootloader-ti2">Using a Mageia bootloader</title>
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<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>
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<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>
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<title revision="2" xml:id="advancedOptionBootloader-ti5">Bootloader advanced option</title>
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<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>
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