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

[Barry Jackson]

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 ;)