Les Mikesell wrote: > > Grub can boot from any partition that bios can find, and you'd instruct > grub about it with the root (hdx,x) notation for the drive/partition. It > doesn't care about the linux device name, how the data got on that > partition, or whether it is ever mounted anywhere once the system starts. > With the typical installation, doesn't the file system on the partition have to be one that Grub understands? (Has a stage 1.5 for.) I would think you would lose most of the advantages of Grub has over LILO if you tried to use an unsupported file system. I am guessing that if you used an unsupported file system, that stage 1 would load stage 2 directly, and you would have to tell Grub about any changes just like you would if using LILO. But it may be that Grub would fail to install. I have not tried doing an install where stage 2 was on something like an NTFS partition. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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