Installing Grub and grub-legacy side by side

Hello, I have Grub installed already in my arch machine. I need to install grub-legacy. Is there any way to install grub-legacy and both grub at a time? it's not needed that grub-legacy is active.
I don't want grub-legacy active. I just want it to installed in my machine, If it's installed as another name no problem. Why i needed to install is for cross compilation. I am cross compiling for another Embedded system.

arungupta2008 wrote:Can we download grub-legacy src files and then install it manually? by changing the names of bin. As ubuntu have done?
In Arch you should be using PKGBUILDs to compile and install packages. You need to edit https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gr/g … y/PKGBUILD and apart from moving the files, you have to remove
conflicts=('grub')
too.

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