[Bug 779213] Re: Dual boot fails with Mageia/Mandriva

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** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Dual boot fails with Mageia/Mandriva

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  While Kubuntu 11.04 is now my main distribution, I have also been
  testing the beta versions of Mageia. In attempting to run Mageia as a
  subsidiary distribution in a multi-boot situation controlled by
  Ubuntu/Kubuntu, I have run into a problem that I had previously
  experienced while attempting to use Mandriva in a similar way - the
  boot process terminates in a kernel panic, apparently because Grub2
  doesn't properly identify the default boot location in
  Mageia/Mandriva.

  The problem doesn't seem to arise (for me, anyway) with other
  distributions still using Grub1, such as openSUSE and Fedora, and has
  apparently already been raised upstream. See:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606904

  This bug was marked as resolved in version 1.98 of Grub2 back in
  August 2010. Nevertheless, the issue still exists in version
  1.99~rc1-13ubuntu, as used in Ubuntu and Kubuntu 11.04. Since this
  appears to be a version specific to Ubuntu. I have reported the bug
  here rather than re-opening the upstream bug at this stage.

  I have just discovered that another bug report, complete with what
  appears to be a very simple patch to fix the problem, was lodged
  upstream in January 2010:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566102

  Clearly that patch has not yet been implemented.

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