Thufir wrote:
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?
Whatever you put into it. On my machine, it's Microsoft's MBR.
Mike
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