Re: BOIS Blues again
- From: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:42:29 +0930
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.
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