Thufir wrote:
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?
Whatever you put into it. On my machine, it's Microsoft's MBR.
Mike
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