GRUB in the MBR

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Fri Nov 12 21:25:41 UTC 2004


On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 03:34:27PM +0200, Igal Baldran wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to install GRUB in to the MBR.
> I did it by in
> Do any one know if I can include Stage2 and other config files in the MBR
> it self?

In a word - no.  The MBR is actually 512 bytes.  If you look in
/boot/grub, you'll see stage1 being 512 bytes and stage2 being over
100K.  There's no way to make that fit.

You may want to start reading here:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-grub-whatis.html

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