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. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org