basically he says that something is screwing with the bootsector in the location that stage 1.5 resides.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:54:58AM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > At Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:55:38 +1100, > Jason Thomas wrote: > > okuji, can you explain to me what the stage 1.5 bit is, and why this > > user can just delete it and grub still works. > > I don't see what is your question exactly. > > Stage 1.5 is optional. It's not a necessity. So when you invoke > "setup" and GRUB cannot find Stage 1.5, GRUB is installed without > Stage 1.5. In this case, Stage 1 directly loads Stage 2. > > Okuji > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.topic.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 Unix System Administrator Fax: +61 2 6257 7311 Intology Services Pty. Ltd. Mobile: 0418 29 66 81 1 Hall Street Lyneham ACT 2602 http://www.intology.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
