grub can't access system

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Mon Sep 19 15:04:11 UTC 2005


Once upon a time, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> said:
> On Sep 18, 2005, Jim Cornette <fct-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> > It is my understanding that the /boot partition has to be on a primary
> > partition.
> 
> Nope, not true.  It works just fine as a logical partition.

Only if you write GRUB (or some other "smart" boot loader) to the MBR.
If you have multiple OSes (or even multiple installs of the same OS),
writing GRUB to the MBR is not always a good idea.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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