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

Mon Dec 3 19:01:28 CET 2012

On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:51:52 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+
+> If you have another distribution
+> installed with grub-legacy it is easy to install a second distro which
+> uses grub2 (use chainloader in your existing grub-legacy).
+
+  Depends on where GRUB2 is installed.
+If it goes in the MBR, then how does one get to existing GRUB-Legacy installs?
+  (I do not know how to chainload from a GRUB2 menu to a GRUB-Legacy install,
+though I can from GRUB-Legacy to GRUB2).
+  
+My experience with GRUB2 distros such as Ubuntu 12.01 and Mint 13 is that
+although their menus do include existing GRUB-Legacy installs, they fail to boot
+them.
+
+Apart from all that, I do not WANT to use GRUB2. Why is it needed?
+   As someone else said in here just now there is a vast difference between the
+simplicity of adjusting a GRUB-Legacy menu.lst and the ridiculous jumping
+through hoops required to do the equivalent in GRUB2.
+  And isn't it great that e.g. hd(0,0) in GRUB-Legacy is hd(0,1) in GRUB2?
+What was the point of that unbelieveble jumble?
+
+
+
+-- 
+/\/\aurice 
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