Grub Manual

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> Grub can boot from any partition that bios can find, and you'd instruct
> grub about it with the root (hdx,x) notation for the drive/partition. It
> doesn't care about the linux device name, how the data got on that
> partition, or whether it is ever mounted anywhere once the system starts.
> 
With the typical installation, doesn't the file system on the
partition have to be one that Grub understands? (Has a stage 1.5
for.) I would think you would lose most of the advantages of Grub
has over LILO if you tried to use an unsupported file system. I am
guessing that if you used an unsupported file system, that stage 1
would load stage 2 directly, and you would have to tell Grub about
any changes just like you would if using LILO. But it may be that
Grub would fail to install. I have not tried doing an install where
stage 2 was on something like an NTFS partition.

Mikkel
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