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

Sun Jan 20 18:42:48 CET 2013

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:50:06 +0000, Barry Jackson wrote:
+
+>  I repeat - "Installing the grub2 package"
+
+  OK - so you differentiate between "installing with GRUB2" and
+"installing the GRUB2 packge?
+
+  Does the former include the latter?
+Or do you mean one can install with GRUB Legacy and then go on to
+install the GRUB2 *package* (which presumably doesn't do anything but
+make itself available for the purposes you described)?
+
+> 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.
+
+   What/where is the 'multiboot command'?
+
+> Did you test it in Mageia as described in the README.Mageia ?
+
+    The GRUB2 I tried was from Ubuntu 12.01 and Mint 13, not 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? .
+
+  Good question. The "GRUB2-to-Grub Legacy' boots I attempted via GRUB2
+in the MBR all failed.
+   Next time I get the netbook out I will try booting a GRUB Legacy
+install via a GRUB Legacy boot menu entry for booting a GRUB2 install.
+(Remember, it has GRUB Legacy in the MBR.)
+
+But I expect the result to be the same as booting GRUB legacy from
+GRUB2 in the MBR.
+
+If the failure to boot  was caused by a faulty GRUB2 component, as has
+been suggested, then the test will have to await my installing Mageia-3
+with GRUB2, which may not happen very soon.
+
+-- 
+/\/\aurice 
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