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

Tue Dec 4 02:19:21 CET 2012

Maurice Batey wrote:
+
+> 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).
+
+Getting GRUB2 to chain load something would be a good trick, I will 
+have to research that.  
+
+> 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.
+
+What I've been doing lately is to install everything with its default 
+boot loader into its root partition and have a tiny partition at the 
+end of the disk that contains just a lilo configuration file and map file.  
+
+That configuration file contains stansas like;
+other=/dev/sda5
+	label="sda5_live"
+	optional 
+
+Lilo only has to be rerun when you resize partitions or want to make 
+cosmetic changes to them menu.  
+
+> 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?
+> 
+> 
+> 
+-- 
+blind Pete
+Sig goes here...  
+
+