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Hello Everyone,

I've been keen to keep my eyes on Mageia almost since day one. I even registered to the Wiki and I'd like to contribute as much as I could.

Definitely, I can't help or contribute unless I install and use Mageia for some time. I've tried to search for some basic info but couldn't find.

Long story short, my questions are:

1- Are there some Official Documents for Mageia?
As some of you may already know, Fedora, for example, has a very great Official Documentation on their website (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/index.html). Same for Ubuntu.
Sadly, I couldn't find the same thing in Mageia's Website. Perhaps I missed something obvious?

2- I checked http://www.mageia.org/en/1/notes/ but didn't find what I'm looking fore. I guess Mageia uses GRUB Legacy instead of GRUB2, right?

3- I have a Test HDD. I'm Multi-Booting some Distros for TESTING Purposes. I wanted to Install Mageia on one of the partitions (sda7) but after installation, I got Kernel Panic.
I made sure to install GRUB (whatever version it's) to sda7 instead of sda but that didn't help. YES, I ran

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sudo update-grub

after installation but didn't help.
I'll give it another try but I appreciate if there is/are some tip(s) for such scenario?!


My PC is:
P4 - 2GB RAM - 40GB HDD

Mageia 1 - GNOME - 32-bit


Thank you!

Edit:
I have tried again to install Mageia and chose to install Boot Loader to the Partition instead of MBR (this time it's sda9).
For some reason, it says "sde9". I'm not sure WHY?

In Ubuntu Family, in case I want to create a Multi-Boot System, I just need to install the Boot Loader to the PBR and then run "update-grub" after the installation is done.

With Fedora, there is an option to NOT install the Boot Loader.

In Mageia, I'm wondering what is the best approach to get this done

Thank you!

Welcome
1/ Yes we are pretty short on documentation at the moment. If you want to help write some the documentation team is here http://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/ In the meantime you can refer to the Mandriva wiki at http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/ unfortunately the Mandriva documentation is not as good as Fedora or Ubuntu either.

2/ Yes Mageia uses Grub 1

3/ I think the simplest way to work is to install the Mageia Grub1 bootloader to the partition (NOT the MBR), and then put a chain loader entry into the grub2 on the MBR. There was another post on the same subject recently.

amjjawad wrote:1- Are there some Official Documents for Mageia?
As some of you may already know, Fedora, for example, has a very great Official Documentation on their website (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/index.html). Same for Ubuntu.
Sadly, I couldn't find the same thing in Mageia's Website. Perhaps I missed something obvious?

There is not much documentation for mageia at the moment. But I think they were talking about creating a documentation team at one of the previous meeting.
http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-meetin ... .html#l-60

I think they did not start yet, but you can add yourself on the documentation page if you want to help on this :
http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=documentation