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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Can't Dual Boot With Ubuntu</H1>
    <B>blind Pete</B> 
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    <I>Fri Jun 29 00:20:32 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Doug Laidlaw wrote:

&gt;<i> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:33:16 +1000
</I>&gt;<i> blind Pete &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">0123peter at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Different problem.  Grub 1 can not be expected to know about
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Grub 2.  Grub 2 should know how to handle a Grub 1 system, but
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> doesn't.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> The docs for GRUB 2 say to chainload.  If you install Mandriva then
</I>&gt;<i> Ubuntu, the Ubuntu bootloader, will be in your MBR and useable. You can
</I>&gt;<i> then customise it to boot into Mageia by default.  Perhaps not the
</I>&gt;<i> desired outcome.
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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.  

&gt;<i> There is a full tutorial in a series I have found very good on other
</I>&gt;<i> topics, although I haven't looked at this one, at
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html">http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html</A>
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> It covers additional topics, like theming your Grub2 menu (perhaps make
</I>&gt;<i> it look as though it is Mageia?)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> FWIW,
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Doug.
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blind Pete
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