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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-February/011720.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-February/011720.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..20087fd36 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-February/011720.html @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2 + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Grub%20and%20Grub2&In-Reply-To=%3C4F2DE3C7.6050309%40gmail.com%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="011718.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="011725.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2</H1> + <B>Michel Catudal</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Grub%20and%20Grub2&In-Reply-To=%3C4F2DE3C7.6050309%40gmail.com%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2">michelcatudal at gmail.com + </A><BR> + <I>Sun Feb 5 03:04:55 CET 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011718.html">[Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011725.html">[Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11720">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11720">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11720">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11720">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>Le 2012-02-04 13:27, Maurice Batey a écrit : +><i> On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:04:10 -0500, Michel Catudal wrote: +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> The bootloader installation should be entirely separate from the operating system. +</I>><i> Michel, I think to avoid confusion, programs such as XOSL +</I>><i> (e.g. Extipl, GAG, SBM) are usually referred to as 'boot managers' (and +</I>><i> usually reside in the MBR) , whereas the system-specific functions such +</I>><i> as LILO and GRUB are referred to as 'boot loaders', and reside in the +</I>><i> superblock of the /boot partion of whichever system they belong to. +</I>><i> The boot managers then facilitate the selection of whichever system, +</I>><i> is to be booted by linking to that system's bootloader on its partition. +</I>><i> +</I> +The diffference between the two is not always that clear. grub can also be seen as a boot manager. + +Actually I have xosl residing on a small primary partition about 16k, smallest possible on a 2TB hard disk. +I found this to be perfect in the days of the OS/2 boot manager so I am keeping the same approach with a newer bootloader. +I would use the OS/2 bootloader but it doesn't support newer hard disks. + +The idea is that if the MBR is damaged by a linux distribution or OS/2. I just boot on a floppy and restore the MBR. +Nothing special is needed for the MBR, I just have to set the bootloader partition as active. + + +Michel + +-- +For OS/2 and Linux Software visit +<A HREF="http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal">http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal</A> + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011718.html">[Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011725.html">[Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11720">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11720">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11720">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11720">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |