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

Maurice Batey maurice at bcs.org.uk
Sun Jan 20 18:26:00 CET 2013


On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:36:36 +0000, Barry Jackson wrote:

> Much bad press was caused by a nasty bug
> in os-prober which broke multi-booting of legacy installations from grub2
> - it was fixed in 1.53

 Maybe that's what I hit when trying Ubuntu 12.01, and maybe not. 
Who knows?

Discovery will have to await my next try with GRUB2, but that might be a
while yet. The GRUB2 mechanism is so obtuse as to be a deterrent, but
there may be circumstances when it can't be avoided.

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/\/\aurice 
	



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