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As of time of writing (24th November 2011) it is not possible to keep GRUB alongside GRUB2. It is a problem if you just need grub-legacy to install it on other media (such as compact flash cards, SD cards) to prepare the media for boot, with a system that has not yet switched to Grub2. Even though the support for GRUB has been dropped in Fedora, allow us to install GRUB alongside GRUB2, to use it to make other media boot-able.
Failing this, we should retire the package completely, right? As is, it's kind of useless.
Yeah it is kind of useless now. What is the problem with having both installed on a system? Are there any file conflicts between GRUB and GRUB2?
(In reply to comment #2) > Yeah it is kind of useless now. What is the problem with having both > installed on a system? Are there any file conflicts between GRUB and GRUB2? I think the essential problem is that it's unmaintained code and no one really wants to take it over. It's probably better, at this point, to look into better support in Fedora for another lightweight bootloader like syslinux.
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