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<B>Michel Catudal</B>
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<I>Sun Feb 5 03:04:55 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>Le 2012-02-04 13:27, Maurice Batey a écrit :
><i> On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:04:10 -0500, Michel Catudal wrote:
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</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.
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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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