Grub and two distros

[Matthew Flaschen]

Tim wrote:
> No, the MBR has the most basic information to be able to read something
> from a drive.  This will be aimed at some partition, where something
> larger and more useful (e.g. ordinary disc files rather than half a meg
> of space in the boot record)

Actually, half a KB.  The MBR is very short loader code, that simply
reads the next boot stage from the partition into memory.

Matt Flaschen