On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:51:52 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > If you have another distribution > installed with grub-legacy it is easy to install a second distro which > uses grub2 (use chainloader in your existing grub-legacy).
Depends on where GRUB2 is installed. If it goes in the MBR, then how does one get to existing GRUB-Legacy installs? (I do not know how to chainload from a GRUB2 menu to a GRUB-Legacy install, though I can from GRUB-Legacy to GRUB2). My experience with GRUB2 distros such as Ubuntu 12.01 and Mint 13 is that although their menus do include existing GRUB-Legacy installs, they fail to boot them. Apart from all that, I do not WANT to use GRUB2. Why is it needed? As someone else said in here just now there is a vast difference between the simplicity of adjusting a GRUB-Legacy menu.lst and the ridiculous jumping through hoops required to do the equivalent in GRUB2. And isn't it great that e.g. hd(0,0) in GRUB-Legacy is hd(0,1) in GRUB2? What was the point of that unbelieveble jumble? -- /\/\aurice