Triple boot:XP,ubuntu&FC5 grub failed

Thufir hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Fri Sep 8 06:04:13 UTC 2006


On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:15:47 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
> GRUB gets loaded by whatever loads it. If it is in the MBR, then the
> BIOS loads it. If it is elsewhere, then something else loads it.
> The BIOS has no concept of partitions. GRUB is not an OS. It is an OS
> loader. My copy of GRUB gets loaded from a file in my Windows XP
> partition by the XP Boot Manager.
[...]

Ah.  If GRUB isn't in the MBR, but, for example, hda1, then what's in the
MBR?


-Thufir




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