Doug Laidlaw wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:33:16 +1000 > blind Pete <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Different problem. Grub 1 can not be expected to know about >> Grub 2. Grub 2 should know how to handle a Grub 1 system, but >> doesn't. > > The docs for GRUB 2 say to chainload. If you install Mandriva then > Ubuntu, the Ubuntu bootloader, will be in your MBR and useable. You can > then customise it to boot into Mageia by default. Perhaps not the > desired outcome.
No there is a bug in the Ubuntu installer, that does not work. It should. Possibly if Mageia was installed with its boot loader in its root partition it might work, but I strongly suspect that it would not, without intervention. My knowledge of Grub 2 is not suffeicient to give details. > There is a full tutorial in a series I have found very good on other > topics, although I haven't looked at this one, at > http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html > > It covers additional topics, like theming your Grub2 menu (perhaps make > it look as though it is Mageia?) > > FWIW, > > Doug. -- blind Pete Sig goes here...
