[Mageia-dev] Will the 'official' Mageia-3 installer have a 'GRUB Legacy' option?

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Op maandag 3 december 2012 18:01:28 schreef Maurice Batey:
> On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:51:52 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> > If you have another distribution
> > installed with grub-legacy it is easy to install a second distro which
> > uses grub2 (use chainloader in your existing grub-legacy).
> 
>   Depends on where GRUB2 is installed.
> If it goes in the MBR, then how does one get to existing GRUB-Legacy
> installs? (I do not know how to chainload from a GRUB2 menu to a
> GRUB-Legacy install, though I can from GRUB-Legacy to GRUB2).
> 
> My experience with GRUB2 distros such as Ubuntu 12.01 and Mint 13 is that
> although their menus do include existing GRUB-Legacy installs, they fail to
> boot them.
> 
> Apart from all that, I do not WANT to use GRUB2. Why is it needed?
>    As someone else said in here just now there is a vast difference between
> the simplicity of adjusting a GRUB-Legacy menu.lst and the ridiculous
> jumping through hoops required to do the equivalent in GRUB2.
>   And isn't it great that e.g. hd(0,0) in GRUB-Legacy is hd(0,1) in GRUB2?
> What was the point of that unbelieveble jumble?

you are completly correct, however, grub-legacy hasn't been supported for 
years, and grub2 has btrfs support...