Installing Grub and grub-legacy side by side

arungupta2008 · 2014-07-01 02:25:03

Hello, I have Grub installed already in my arch machine. I need to install grub-legacy. Is there any way to install grub-legacy and both grub at a time? it's not needed that grub-legacy is active.

I don't want grub-legacy active. I just want it to installed in my machine, If it's installed as another name no problem. Why i needed to install is for cross compilation. I am cross compiling for another Embedded system.

clfarron4 · 2014-07-01 08:42:14

I don't think you can because of file conflicts.

We have GRUB legacy in the AUR though.

arungupta2008 · 2014-07-01 09:23:18

Ubuntu installs both Grub and grub-legacy. Grub-legacy as main os loader and grub is just resides their.

Why it's not possible in Arch Linux. Can we download grub-legacy src files and then install it manually? by changing the names of bin. As ubuntu have done?

karol · 2014-07-01 09:32:39

arungupta2008 wrote:

Can we download grub-legacy src files and then install it manually? by changing the names of bin. As ubuntu have done?

In Arch you should be using PKGBUILDs to compile and install packages. You need to edit https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gr/g … y/PKGBUILD and apart from moving the files, you have to remove

conflicts=('grub')

too.

Mr.Elendig · 2014-07-01 10:08:22

Use a clean chroot/nspawn to build in.....

arungupta2008 · 2014-07-02 01:28:28

Mr.Elendig wrote:

Use a clean chroot/nspawn to build in.....

Sorry Mr.Elendig please elaborate a bit, I don't understood. Thank you.

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#1 2014-07-01 02:25:03

Installing Grub and grub-legacy side by side

#2 2014-07-01 08:42:14

Re: Installing Grub and grub-legacy side by side

#3 2014-07-01 09:23:18

Re: Installing Grub and grub-legacy side by side

#4 2014-07-01 09:32:39

Re: Installing Grub and grub-legacy side by side

#5 2014-07-01 10:08:22

Re: Installing Grub and grub-legacy side by side

#6 2014-07-02 01:28:28

Re: Installing Grub and grub-legacy side by side

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