BOIS Blues again

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 14 17:09:06 UTC 2007


Rick Stevens wrote:

[snip]

> If grub is your only boot loader, it should be placed in the master boot
> record (MBR) of your first hard drive (or whichever drive you tell your
> BIOS it should boot from).  The MBR is the first usable block of the
> drive.  Once the first-level grub loader is in the memory, it can boot
> any second-level loader from anywhere on the disk (or any disk).  Grub
> doesn't have the 1024 cylinder or number-of-drives limit that BIOS does.

Erm, GRUB can load it in; that doesn't mean that the boot loader
will run as desired in the environment GRUB provides. The setup you
specify usually works, but not always. On my machine, for example, it
results in a prompt to repair the disc.

Mike
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