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

Mon Dec 3 20:37:50 CET 2012

AL13N skrev 3.12.2012 21:25:
+> 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...
+>
+
+yeah, well not supporting brtfs can be considered a + :)
+
+even btrfs has problem supporting btrfs at times :)
+
+--
+Thomas
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