On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: >> 3. grub2-install calls grub2-bios-setup which installs boot.img into >> the MBR and embeds core.img into the sectors immediately after the >> MBR. > > Ok, that isn't all that unlike grub1 - that is what stage1.5 is. It > just sounds like these aren't static files that are copied out of > /boot/grub, but rather they're built on-demand from other files there. > Grub1 figures out which static stage1.5 you need based on where /boot > is. They probably went to a more dynamic model so that they can > support stuff like LVM+MD+LUKS+etc without having every permutation of > static code. I'm not sure how smart the bootloader code ends up being > - it wouldn't surprise me if at time of install the installer does all > the work and just loads a simple bootloader on the diagnostic cylinder > with just enough smarts to find /boot if it hasn't changed.
Spot on. :-)
