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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Grub2 vs. Grub Legacy in M3</H1>
    <B>James Kerr</B> 
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    <I>Sun Jan 20 15:39:26 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>On 20/01/2013 13:30, Maurice Batey wrote:
&gt;<i> On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:08:57 +0000, Barry Jackson wrote:
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Installing the grub2 package will not impact your current bootloader in
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> any way.
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</I>&gt;<i>    Installing GRUB2 where, Barry?
</I>&gt;<i> (MBR or  Root partition?)
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</I>&gt;<i> If - as I did with Ubuntu 12.01 - GRUB2 goes into the MBR, then I can
</I>&gt;<i> no longer boot from its menu into a GRUB Legacy install, a I said
</I>&gt;<i> earlier (despite the GRUB2 boot menu purporting to do so).
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On a recent install of Beta1, I chose Grub2 and selected to put the 
boot-loader in the MBR of the boot disk, replacing the legacy grub 
boot-loader of Mageia2. Grub2 created a boot menu that enables me to 
successfully boot the pre-existing Mageia2 installation.

Jim


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