Grub Manual

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 21:56:15 UTC 2007


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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? 

Yes, grub needs to know enough about the filesystem structure to find 
its files.  But it knows nothing about where or if that filesystem would 
be mounted when the OS is up and running - which is the part you need to 
know when you modify those files.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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