On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Keshav P R <the.ridikulus.rat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I assume you are talking about non-UEFI systems which are currently > booting via grub-legacy, ie current core/grub or aur/grub-gfx . For > such systems, once grub-bios (aka grub2-bios) is installed, the user > has to follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Install_to_440-byte_MBR_boot_code_region > to install grub(2)'s boot code in the MBR. Then follow > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Generate_GRUB2_BIOS_Config_file > to generate grub.cfg . This is in case of BIOS+MBR booting. Thank you for your long and helpful reply - and yes in my case it was non-UEFI systems that I was referring to! It is clear I will need to do quite a lot of reading to be sure I don't break my systems when grub2 is released to [core]! However at least all this can be done ahead of the change! Best wishes Mike -- mike c
