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

[Maurice Batey]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:31:37 +0000, Barry Jackson wrote:

> my "master" grub2 grub.cfg which is in a small grub
> partition at the start of sda. 

  How does one acquire a 'small grub partition'?
(Just get GRUB2 package to install into an empty partition?)

> My MBR points to this partition, so all
> OS's are either chainloaded or multibooted from the manually created
> entries in this grub.cfg

  Which do you have in the MBR: GRUB2 or Legacy?

> My limited understanding is that it is similar to chainloading but does
> not need embedded code in the PBR. 

  Ah,now that's interesting! 
(I assume you mean 'does not need GRUB2 installed in the PBR')

> A useful side effect is that grub legacy may be installed to the PBR and
> used if required,

   I assume you mean the PBR of the 'small grub partition'.

Mamy thanks, Barry, especially w.r.t to the 'bootloader' partition!

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/\/\aurice