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Hi folks

As you now there is no option in Mageia installer to install grub on root partition. My laptop MBR controlled by EasyBCD and I'm not going to touch that. However EasyBCD needs linux distros to install grub on root. Is there a way to do so?

Thank you in advance

Ok, I skipped installing grub on Mbr during Mageia installation and configured EasyBCD to automatically locate and load grub2. Fortunately this workaround works and I can boot to Mageia without problem. However a small issue still exist: Updating kernel doesn't update grub automatically and I have to update grub manually using "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" command. here is the content of /etc/boot/grub file:

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RUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" splash quiet noiswmd resume=UUID=f7d1252b-4306>
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=false
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=n
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Mageia
GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y
GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x32
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=gfxterm
GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub2/themes/maggy/theme.txt
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10


Did you really check documentation and Wiki about that?
I had grub2 on the root partition in the past. It worked including kernel updates but I like grub2 less then grub. So I choosed rEFInd since I have EFI capable MB and never locked back.
I invested a lot of time in bootloaders especially in XOSL documentation and I even still mirror it since author asked as he abandoned the project. My motivation for fiddling almost vanished.