Stephen Powell <[email protected]> writes: > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Stephen Powell <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of >>> the master boot record and outside of a partition ... >> >> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. > > It does not use the master boot record. It relies on a master boot > record program to chain load it from the partition boot sector. (I > use the mbr package for that.)
The extlinux package itself also contains an mbr.bin, which you can use (it's strong point is probably EBIOS support). > Speaking of documentation, that seems to be its main weakness. > Documentation is sketchy and spread out over a number of different files. /usr/share/doc/extlinux.txt.gz references syslinux.txt, which is fairly comprehensive according to my standards, at least as far as the core is concerned. What did you miss? Some modules may be less well documented. > It installs hook scripts that I don't want (and that have bugs). I hope we can fix them soon (they are Debian specific additions). -- Cheers, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
