On 20/01/13 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?)
I repeat - "Installing the grub2 package"
This automatically creates core.img in /boot/grub2/i386-pc/ which allows
you to boot into it from either grub2 using the multiboot command or
from legacy, using the menu entry shown in the readme.
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).
Works for me.
Once it's installed read /usr/share/doc/grub2/README.Mageia to find how to
add an entry to your existing menu.lst to boot into the new grub2 menu
from your existing legacy grub.
As I said earlier, I already know how to do that.
What I still don't know (and still no one has described!) is how to get
a GRUB2 boot menu to successfullly boot a GRUB Legacy install.
Did you test it in Mageia as described in the README.Mageia ?
If you add Mageia (grub2) entry to menu.lst as described and boot into
the grub2 menu it will have all your legacy systems listed.
Do they not boot? All mine do.
