When installing ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala will grub2 work together with grub legacy

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Thu, 10/22/09, bqz69 <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:

> From: bqz69 <bqz69 at telia.com>
> Subject: Re: When installing ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala will grub2 work together with grub legacy
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 10:27 AM
> On Wednesday 21 October 2009 03:52:23
> pm Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> > On Wed, October 21, 2009 15:39, bqz69 wrote:
> > > I have 4 different ubuntu versions on my laptop.
> > >
> > > I am using grub legacy, and I can install new
> versions, using super grub
> > > disk
> > > SGD to set grub up after each new installation,
> and all works perfect.
> > >
> > > Then I tried a month ago to use grub 2 and I lost
> my installation because
> > > I
> > > could not fix it using SGD, I also did a lot of
> reading to fix the
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > I now see, to my horror, that grub 2 is default
> in 9.10 which is being
> > > released end of this month.
> > >
> > > As I see it, I cannot even think of installing
> with grub 2.
> > >
> > > Is there a choice, when installing 9.10 stable,
> so you can choose grub
> > > legacy
> > > during installation.
> >
> > If you upgrade an existing 9.01 to 9.10 (no new
> installation), it will
> > keep grub-legacy. Grub2 is only for new
> installations.
> > And if you install grub2 when grub-legacy already
> exists, then it will
> > chainload so you can always fall back to grub-legacy.
> 
> So, we suggest I have installed ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala
> stable using grub 2, 
> and now I can boot into this (and only this according to my
> experience).
> 
> Then I want to update my  system, so my 4 OS, all
> using grub legacy, and this 
> new OS using grub 2 will come up with a combined grub boot
> loader menu (5 
> choices of OS), so I can choose whatever OS I want to use.
> 
> This is a imagined situation I will meet, when I have new
> installed 9.10.
> 
> Later I want to install 8.04 from the live cd with grub
> legacy.
> 
> What will I have to do in this situation, as I only can log
> into 8.04 just 
> after new installation.
> 
> I would use SGD according to my former experience, but it
> works not on grub 2.
> 
sudo update-grub usually works even on mixed grub systems.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net


> Hope you understand my questions :-)
> 
> Thanks
>