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

Mon Dec 3 13:39:28 CET 2012

Maurice Batey a écrit :
+> 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
+>
+The second reference mentions *potential* problems accessing a grub2 
+partition, in the event of repartitioning.  Implying that GAG can indeed 
+boot to grub2 partitions.
+Such problems could always be corrected by reinstalling grub in the 
+partition in question.
+Note that GAG conflicts with the newer GPT partition table disk format, 
+so sooner or later you will have to migrate to something else.
+
+If you have problems with GAG, you could always replace it with grub2 in 
+the boot sector.
+
+>    (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...
+
+Grub2 does seem more complicated to customize.
+A tutorial which should help :
+http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html
+
+-- 
+André
+