RFC: Multiboot Guide

[Pete Travis]

On Jun 1, 2015 5:32 AM, "Timothy Murphy" <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
>
> Pete Travis wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > There's regularly questions here, and around the internet (ie ask.fp.o)
> > about dual booting Fedora with Windows systems, or other Linux systems,
> > or OSX.  To address the more common questions, the Fedora Docs team has
> > written a Multiboot Guide[1].
> ...
> > [1]
> >
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/22/html/Multiboot_Guide/index.html
>
> I found this very interesting and useful. Thank you.
>
> One issue I didn't see mentioned is: Booting into grub1 systems.
> I encountered this recently when upgrading a CentOS-6.5 system to CentOS-7
> (on a relatively old BIOS machine).
> Although the old system was mentioned in the grub menu,
> attempting to boot into it caused an immediate segfault.
>
> Is it possible to boot into a system using the old grub
> by employing a chainloader as for Windows?
> If so, is this documented somewhere?
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
> gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
>
>
> --

I would think that grub2 would boot el6 without chainloading, but I haven't
tested that...  good catch, I'll look into it.  A bz ticket would help make
sure the question doesn't fall off the radar, if you have time.

--Pete
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