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 ;)

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