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Re: Grub won't install

From Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Grub won't install
Date 2016-05-20 00:00 +0200
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Le 19/05/2016 00:58, Felix Miata a écrit :
> Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-05-18 23:40 (UTC+0100):
>
>> Can one still use grub-legacy with modern kernels?
>
> It's what I'm using for launching all my Debians, Fedoras, openSUSEs,
> Mageias and more. Distros that no longer offer grub-legacy get installed
> here sans bootloader and get booted from an "alien" grub-legacy.
> However, all mine are either exclusively BIOS, or configured to boot a
> UEFI system in BIOS compatability mode, and all are using MBR partitioning.

This is going to become more and more limiting as disks grow above 2 TiB 
requiring GPT partitioning, and newer UEFI firmwares do not have legacy 
BIOS compatibility any more.

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Grub won't install Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 03:50 +0200
  Re: Grub won't install J Mo <jmomo@jmomo.net> - 2016-05-18 06:20 +0200
    Re: Grub won't install e Lpe <m2lepretre@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 12:00 +0200
    Re: Grub won't install Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 21:00 +0200
      Re: Grub won't install Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-19 00:50 +0200
        Re: Grub won't install Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-05-19 01:00 +0200
          Re: Grub won't install Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-05-20 00:00 +0200
        Re: Grub won't install Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> - 2016-05-19 18:50 +0200
          Re: Grub won't install Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-19 19:30 +0200
      Re: Grub won't install Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@fastmail.com> - 2016-05-20 02:10 +0200
        Re: Grub won't install <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-20 09:40 +0200
        Re: Grub won't install J Mo <jmomo@jmomo.net> - 2016-05-21 11:10 +0200
        Re: Grub won't install Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> - 2016-05-26 05:50 +0200

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