Bug 15833

Summary:	Installing Mageia next to Ubuntu with Grub2, fails to add Mageia to the boot-menu due to lack of grub2-install
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Kristoffer Grundström <lovaren>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud, zen25000
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	grub2	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Kristoffer Grundström 2015-05-03 16:37:01 CEST

Description of problem: I noticed that if you have Ubuntu 15.04 installed and you want to put Mageia next to it Grub AND Grub2 fails to add the identified Partitions from Mageia to the boot-menu since this requires grub-install or grub2-install.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 16.90


How reproducible: All the time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Ubuntu 15.04 and update it.
2. Install Mageia 5 next to Ubuntu as well.
3. After reboot update Mageia 5 with Core and Updates medias.
4. Open terminal and login as root.
5. Type update-grub or update-grub2 which will find Mageia, but it doesn't add it to be seen during reboot as you need to type grub-install or grub2-install as well.


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Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-04 08:48:22 CEST

I don't see the link with the installer.
That would be a grub2 issue.
But I'm not sure it's a Mageia issue (which have grub2-install in /sbin if you choose to use grub2 bootloader).
Isn't it an issue with Ubuntu instead that doesn't support !grub2 installations?

CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud, zen25000
Component: Installer => Release (media or process)
Source RPM: drakx-installer-stage3 => grub2

Comment 2 Barry Jackson 2015-05-04 11:32:19 CEST

If you had installed Mageia's grub2 to / rather than letting it overwrite the MBR, you would still have had Ubuntu's bootloader in the MBR and could have run update-grub in Ubuntu to add Mageia to it's grub2 menu. (assuming that Ubuntu has os-prober installed).

Comment 3 Barry Jackson 2016-01-06 15:53:30 CET

Closing as invalid

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID