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

James Kerr jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk
Sun Jan 20 15:39:26 CET 2013


On 20/01/2013 13:30, Maurice Batey wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:08:57 +0000, Barry Jackson wrote:
>
>> Installing the grub2 package will not impact your current bootloader in
>> any way.
>
>    Installing GRUB2 where, Barry?
> (MBR or  Root partition?)
>
> If - as I did with Ubuntu 12.01 - GRUB2 goes into the MBR, then I can
> no longer boot from its menu into a GRUB Legacy install, a I said
> earlier (despite the GRUB2 boot menu purporting to do so).
>

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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