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Tried installing from two different iso's onto a hard drive containing 5 different OS's. All boot using Grub2.
Installation apeared suscessful.
Rebuild grub.cfg using my main OS (Linux Mint). My usual sucessful method for the other 5 OS's.
Upon rebooting into mageia I received the following error message (1) "vga=788 is deprecated. Use set gfxpayload=... instead." "error: no such partition. Press ... continue....."
After pressing continue I received the following screen display: (2)
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
EDD information not available.
id: Skipping autodetection of RAID arrays. (raid=autodetect will force)
JFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=mageia" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Pdi: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.38.7-server-1.mga #1
Call Trace:
[<0c0483726>] ? panic+0x5c/0x157
[<0c06c3c79>] ? mount_block_root+0xlc0/0x259
[<c022e4c0l>] ? sysys-mknod+0x2c/0x30
[<c06c3e8a>] ? mount_root+0x59/0x5f
[<c0bc3fde>] ? prepare_namespace+0x14e/0xl92
[<c0220055>] ? sys_access+0x25/0x30
[<c06c39f6>] ? kernel_inlt+0x1bb/0xlca
[<c06c383b>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1ca
[<c0l0b7fe)] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10

The first error should be easy to correct with a change to the grub.cfg file?
The second error I'm not sure how to continue. I've never had grub2 fail in that manner. Any susgestions?

Changed way in which OS's were booted.
It seems that if mageia is booted by itself, that is, using the MBR then most of the services will run correctly; therefore it seems that the boot method in mageia does not play fair with Grub2.
I will now try to use mageia's boot method to multiboot all the other OS's.
Not an ideal solution since mageia is not my primary OS.

Just to let you know about existence of this topic:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=888&p=6501&hilit=grub2#p6501

Don't know if it is of any help, but one never knows.

Thanks for the reply.
I'll give it a try.
Should have known the answer would be in a reference to Ubuntu.