On Jun 1, 2015 5:32 AM, "Timothy Murphy" <gayle...@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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