Public bug reported: While Kubuntu 11.04 is now my main distribution, I have also been testing the beta versions of Mageia. In attempting to run Mageia as a subsidiary distribution in a multi-boot situation controlled by Ubuntu/Kubuntu, I have run into a problem that I had previously experienced while attempting to use Mandriva in a similar way - the boot process terminates in a kernel panic, apparently because Grub2 doesn't properly identify the default boot location in Mageia/Mandriva.
The problem doesn't seem to arise (for me, anyway) with other distributions still using Grub1, such as openSUSE and Fedora, and has apparently already been raised upstream. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606904 This bug was marked as resolved in version 1.98 of Grub2 back in August 2010. Nevertheless, the issue still exists in version 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu, as used in Ubuntu and Kubuntu 11.04. Since this appears to be a version specific to Ubuntu. I have reported the bug here rather than re-opening the upstream bug at this stage. I have just discovered that another bug report, complete with what appears to be a very simple patch to fix the problem, was lodged upstream in January 2010: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566102 Clearly that patch has not yet been implemented. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779213 Title: Dual boot fails with Mageia/Mandriva -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
