Grub2 (aka grub_pc) is very (in my opinion too) picky in where it agrees > to be installed into. If my memory serves correctly, the old grub > (grub-legacy) could be installed, for example, into an extended > partition, and control passed to it from a Windows bootloader which > in > turn was booted from the Windows MBR. This let me leave the MBR, with > special features to access Windows recovery partitions, intact.
> With grub-pc, I never found a combination which worked this way. I > have > now developed a workaround for dual-boot systems, but I generally > regard > grub2 as too restrictive for implementing "creative" boot strategies. > Maybe there are good reasons for it to work like this, I do not > know... > Thus my suggestion is to try to use the old grub instead. Toomas, Thanks, can do that too. But I want to try grub2 first. don't give up so easy (I already gave up kde a while ago because there is still no stable 4 version ;-)
