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

[Barry Jackson]

On 31/01/13 22:02, Barry Jackson wrote:
> On 31/01/13 21:41, zezinho wrote:
>> Em 31-01-2013 22:26, Maurice Batey escreveu:
>>>> To be absolutely clear, I have never placed any boot-loader in any PBR
>>>> on this system.
>>>
>>>    *That* is the information  I was after!
>>> It appears to confirm that GRUB2 does *not* need GRUB-legacy in a
>>> root partition's PBR to be able to boot it.
>>
>> I've just tried a Live Gnome USB install, installing GRUB2 to /dev/sda7
>> (so in the PBR). This failed crashing draklive installer :
>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8903
>>
>
> Yes this is not supported, however if you read
> /usr/share/doc/grub2/README.Mageia or have a good read at more recent
> comments in #406 it will become clear ;)
>
Oops I meant #416 ;)