Op maandag 3 december 2012 18:01:28 schreef Maurice Batey: > 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?
you are completly correct, however, grub-legacy hasn't been supported for years, and grub2 has btrfs support...
