On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 10:27 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > The MBR is the first usable block of the drive. Once the first-level > grub loader is in the memory, it can boot any second-level loader from > anywhere on the disk (or any disk). Grub doesn't have the 1024 > cylinder or number-of-drives limit that BIOS does. Others have suggested that it still does, that it must use the BIOS to further access the drive. That's why we have GRUB *and* the kernel files in the small /boot partition. It's the Linux kernel that can use the rest of the drive. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
