Triple boot:XP,ubuntu&FC5 grub failed

[Mike McCarty]

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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