[Mageia-dev] Will the 'official' Mageia-3 installer have a 'GRUB Legacy' option?

Sun Dec 2 13:13:42 CET 2012

On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:43:28 +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+
+> I guess he means that if we switch to Grub2 by default, will we still
+> support greb legacy ?
+
+  Correct! 
+
+I.e. when installing 'GRUB2' Mageia-3, will there be an option to use
+GRUB-Legacy instead?
+
+The reason I ask is that:
+
+  (1) On my desktop I use the excellent GAG bootloader in the MBR, and it cannot
+boot GRUB2 installs.  See e.g.:
+   http://sourceforge.net/projects/gag/forums/forum/230439/topic/3533186
+   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAG_%28boot_loader%29
+  
+  (2) On my netbook, I chainload via a GRUB-legacy Mageia MBR, where the Mageia
+menu.lst picks up all the other installs. (This includes the GRUB2 Ubuntu and
+Mint, whose GRUB2 menu's purport to boot the GRUB-legacy installs but fail to
+do so, hence though I know how to chainload from a GRUB-legacy menu.lst into a
+GRUB2 boot install, I do not know how to boot into a GRUB-legacy install from a
+GRUB2 menu.  If you see what I mean...
+
+Those are just some of the reasons why I would like to avoid - or postpone -
+conversion to GRUB2, the need for which I still fail to comprehend.
+
+-- 
+/\/\aurice 
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+
+