Re: grub can't access system

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Sep 19, 2005, Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net> wrote:

> Once upon a time, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com> said:
>> On Sep 18, 2005, Jim Cornette <fct-cornette insight rr com> wrote:
>> > It is my understanding that the /boot partition has to be on a primary
>> > partition.
>> 
>> Nope, not true.  It works just fine as a logical partition.

> Only if you write GRUB (or some other "smart" boot loader) to the MBR.

Again, not true.  It works for me on hda5 and hda6, each a /boot for a
different installation of Fedora, and each one can chain-load the
other, so both work just fine.

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