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

[bqz69]

On Thursday 22 October 2009 07:27:06 pm Goh Lip wrote:
> 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).

Thanks

Sorry, that is too technical for me to do, if I have 4 different OS to get 
working, right after installation of 9.10.

I am speaking on behalf of other ubuntu people on my knowledge level which 
might install 9.10 also, end of this month.

The bootloader is a very important part of linux, and quite complicated to 
understand.

If you have a problem with a program when working inside ubuntu, you are 
inside, but if you cannot get into an OS, you are sort of standing outside, 
and cannot even google for help.

I predict a kind of storm from people asking for help, when they have 
installed 9.10 - sort of when kde 4.2 suddenly was introduced  to people used 
to kde 3.5, and they could not even install 3.5 instead - hopefully I am 
wrong.

I have read, that you can edit grub.cfg, and that it can work side by side 
with menu.lst, but grub.cfg is too complicated to edit for me - it needs some 
sort of a programmer, I find.