Grub and two distros
Tim
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Sun Jan 11 05:13:06 UTC 2009
Tim:
>> 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)
Matthew Flaschen:
> Actually, half a KB. The MBR is very short loader code, that simply
> reads the next boot stage from the partition into memory.
Yes, of course. Had megs on the brain for some reason.
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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686
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