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I'd like to install BURG but I don't want it to overwrite my MBR. That's because I've got two bootloaders in my system :

  • Default Windows 7 in MBR
  • Grub in /dev/sda2

With the first power button, it will boot into Windows and with the second button it boots from /dev/sda2, loading Grub and then Kubuntu.

Now I want to replace GRUB with BURG. I've installed Burg with

burg-install /dev/sda2 --force

because I don't want my MBR to be overwritten (pressing the first power button MUST load Windows and avoid showing any sign of Linux).

Setup was completed without errors, If I open burg-manager it loads my settings, allowing me to change them and to test everything with burg-emu, so I've changed my settings but the second power button still loads GRUB (Even a different version from the default Kubuntu one).

How can I replace GRUB that's on /dev/sda2 with BURG and without overwriting MBR?

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Everything seems to be ok with what you've done. Are you sure your second power button refers to /dev/sda2? – Jakob Apr 24 '12 at 7:59
It does! Yesterday I updated to 12.04 and, while waiting for the update to complete, I've found out that the second power button called /boot/grub/core.img, so I've changed it to /boot/burg/core.img and it seems to work now ! – StepTNT May 3 '12 at 10:11
This question appears to be abandoned and unanswered, could you perhaps add more detail to your question? If this question no longer applies then you can either delete it or answer it yourself if you've solved the problem. Thanks! – Eric Carvalho Mar 13 at 18:18

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