GRUB Question

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Oct 18 04:48:50 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 09:32 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> How do you chainload to the MBR? If you specify hd0,0, it looks for
> the boot loader in the boot record of the first partition, and not
> the MBR. You can get around that by installing grub stage 1 on the
> boot record of your /boot partition, instead of, or in addition to,
> installing it on the MBR. 

(hd0) to refer to the MBR of that drive.
(hd0,0) to refer to just the first partition.

They're not the same thing as each other.

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