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   On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:56:04 -0600, Warren Post wrote:   
      
   > As mentioned in recent separate threads, I temporarily installed a   
   > second distro on my box to test and play with. I tried to do so in such   
   > a way that it would not affect my production distro, but what in fact   
   > happened was that the new bootloader would not boot the production   
   > distro. Specifically, here's what I did:   
   >   
      
   My experience has been that grub2 does not play well with legacy grub.   
   When I installed Mythbuntu 12.04 I couldn't get back into Mandy 2010.2.   
   My solution, since I had a live Puppy Linux distro handy was to boot into   
   the live Puppy CD, mount the partition where Mandy's /boot/grub was   
   stored, and run grub from that location (./grub).  At the grub prompt you   
   can run "find /boot/grub/stage1" then set the root to that partition   
   "root (hdX,Y)" (watch the partition numbering), then  "setup (hd0)"  and   
   finally "quit" to restore the original MBR.  You can then easily edit the   
   menu.lst to chainload the new distro.  Something like   
      
   Title New Distro :(that uses grub2)   
   root (hdX,Y)  :wherever the new distro is, watch numbering   
   kernel /boot/grub/core.img   
      
   Grub2 seems to find windoz and other grub2 distros ok.  Just messes up   
   legacy grub distros in my experience.   
      
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