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[John Summerfield <summer+suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 23:22, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Is it possible, yes if you can boot from a pen drive.
> I would certainly not do that..
> first, on a hard drive, the boot sector contains a physical address of
> the stage1 boot code. The boot process then loads stage1. Stage1 then
> loads the specific stage1 for the file system (eg. e2fs_stage1_5) which
> then loads /boot/grub/stage2. stage2 then reads the menu.lst (or
> grub.conf) and presents the boot menu etc. Since pendrives are normally
> FAT devices,


Do you know an example where fdisk plus mke2fs can't change that?

fwiw I have a system whose BIOS has decided not to boot directly from hda, 
Couldn't figure why, but booting grub on CD is fine, and this works:

root (hd0)
chainloader +1
boot

There is, of course, no reason /boot can't (with a little work) be on a CD.



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John Summerfield
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