[Mageia-discuss] Can't Dual Boot With Ubuntu

Fri Jun 29 00:20:32 CEST 2012

Doug Laidlaw wrote:
+
+> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:33:16 +1000
+> blind Pete <0123peter at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 
+>> Different problem.  Grub 1 can not be expected to know about
+>> Grub 2.  Grub 2 should know how to handle a Grub 1 system, but
+>> doesn't.
+> 
+> The docs for GRUB 2 say to chainload.  If you install Mandriva then
+> Ubuntu, the Ubuntu bootloader, will be in your MBR and useable. You can
+> then customise it to boot into Mageia by default.  Perhaps not the
+> desired outcome.
+
+No there is a bug in the Ubuntu installer, that does not work.  It 
+should.  Possibly if Mageia was installed with its boot loader in 
+its root partition it might work, but I strongly suspect that it 
+would not, without intervention.  My knowledge of Grub 2 is not 
+suffeicient to give details.  
+
+> There is a full tutorial in a series I have found very good on other
+> topics, although I haven't looked at this one, at
+> http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html
+> 
+> It covers additional topics, like theming your Grub2 menu (perhaps make
+> it look as though it is Mageia?)
+> 
+> FWIW,
+> 
+> Doug.
+
+-- 
+blind Pete
+Sig goes here...  
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