grub instead of grub2 in F16?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Aug 9 17:01:37 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 09:08 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> On 08/09/2011 02:50 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 23:59 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> >> Can grub be passed to the installer to prevent grub2 being used as the
> >> bootloader?
> >
> > no. but you could do package customization, de-select grub2, and select
> > grub. (haven't tested this, but it sounds like it might work!)
> 
> Actually, I was looking for a way to *not* use grub2 during F16 install 
> as it is failing with an unknown error and you can't boot an F16 
> installation without jumping thru a bunch a hoops with a recovery cd.
> 
> Would you do package customization during the package selection phase of 
> installation?

Yes, that's what I was referring to.
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