[Mageia-dev] Grub2 vs. Grub Legacy in M3

Sun Jan 20 15:50:06 CET 2013

On 20/01/13 13:30, Maurice Batey wrote:
+> On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:08:57 +0000, Barry Jackson wrote:
+>
+>> Installing the grub2 package will not impact your current bootloader in
+>> any way.
+>
+>    Installing GRUB2 where, Barry?
+> (MBR or  Root partition?)
+
+I repeat - "Installing the grub2 package"
+
+This automatically creates core.img in /boot/grub2/i386-pc/ which allows 
+you to boot into it from either grub2 using the multiboot command or 
+from legacy, using the menu entry shown in the readme.
+
+>
+> If - as I did with Ubuntu 12.01 - GRUB2 goes into the MBR, then I can
+> no longer boot from its menu into a GRUB Legacy install, a I said
+> earlier (despite the GRUB2 boot menu purporting to do so).
+
+Works for me.
+>
+>> Once it's installed read /usr/share/doc/grub2/README.Mageia to find how to
+>> add an entry to your existing menu.lst to boot into the new grub2 menu
+>> from your existing legacy grub.
+>
+>    As I said earlier, I already know how to do that.
+> What I still don't know (and still no one has described!)  is how to get
+> a GRUB2 boot menu to successfullly boot a GRUB Legacy install.
+>
+
+Did you test it in Mageia as described in the README.Mageia ?
+
+If you add Mageia (grub2) entry to menu.lst as described and boot into 
+the grub2 menu it will have all your legacy systems listed.
+Do they not boot? All mine do.
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