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

Goh Lip g.lip at gmx.com
Thu Oct 22 17:27:06 UTC 2009


bqz69 wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

You can boot into 9.10 using 8.04 grub-legacy by chainloading (manually)
Then at 9.10, update grub2 to set to sda and include newer 8.04 (if you 
want to use 9.10 grub at sda).

Regards,
Goh Lip





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