Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 P at draigBrady.com wrote:
>>>The fact is that for grub the MBR is disk agnostic.
>> Is it? AIUI, the grub MBR has the location on disk of the stage-1.5
> fs loader hard coded into it (just as the lilo second stage
> (chain.b?) in the bootblock had the location of the kernel image hard
> coded into it).
stage1.5 is in the sector following the MBR.
The one on disk is just a copy used at install time.
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