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

Mon Dec 3 20:25:53 CET 2012

Op maandag 3 december 2012 18:01:28 schreef Maurice Batey:
+> 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?
+
+you are completly correct, however, grub-legacy hasn't been supported for 
+years, and grub2 has btrfs support...
+