[Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2

Sun Feb 5 03:04:55 CET 2012

Le 2012-02-04 13:27, Maurice Batey a écrit :
+> On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:04:10 -0500, Michel Catudal wrote:
+>
+>> The bootloader installation should be entirely separate from the operating system.
+>    Michel, I think to avoid confusion, programs such as XOSL
+> (e.g. Extipl, GAG, SBM) are usually referred to as 'boot managers' (and
+> usually reside in the MBR) , whereas the system-specific functions such
+> as LILO and GRUB are referred to as 'boot loaders', and reside in the
+> superblock of the /boot partion of whichever system they belong to.
+>    The boot managers then facilitate the selection of whichever system,
+> is to be booted by linking to that system's bootloader on its partition.
+>
+
+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
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