GRUB discussion -- virgin disks ?

[William Case]

Hi John;

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:37 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> > Hi Jacques et al;
[snip]
> fdisk, when partitioning, will write an MBR with no boot code.
> 
> grub and lilo (re)write the boot code when installed. Windows XP also 
> has the ability to write its boot code after partitioning, and if 
> suitably desperate I'd find out how again:-)
> 

Of course.  Read that but it didn't sink in.  I think I now have all the
pieces.


-- 
Regards Bill