On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:15:47 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: [...] > GRUB gets loaded by whatever loads it. If it is in the MBR, then the > BIOS loads it. If it is elsewhere, then something else loads it. > The BIOS has no concept of partitions. GRUB is not an OS. It is an OS > loader. My copy of GRUB gets loaded from a file in my Windows XP > partition by the XP Boot Manager. [...] Ah. If GRUB isn't in the MBR, but, for example, hda1, then what's in the MBR? -Thufir