>
> nope.  there's partition boot records, then there's the MASTER boot
> record.  the mbr lives on /dev/hda, independant of the partition table.
>
> to install on the mbr, you do setup(hdX).
>
> to install on a partition, you do setup(hdX,Y).

Thanks. That's both helpful and interesting.

>
> from my experience, it's best to just put grub on the MBR and have grub
> chainload any of your other OSes (it does this very well for dos
> (95/98/ME) and nt (nt4/2k/xp)).  what other things are you booting with
> SC7?

Just DOS And Win ME, but I want SC7 as I understand how to use its partition
resizing utilities after Os's are installed, and I just don't want to mess
up what's already there. Also, I can hide disk partitions from Win ME so it
doesn't mess them up. I don't know how to do that with Linux. (And what the
heck, most important, I PAID for it!!) ;-)

So, I didn't get an answer to my question. If I want grub in a non-MBR
setup, would I use

grub> root (hd0,4)  // My boot partition - /dev/hda5
grub> setup (hd0,4) // Where I want grub - /dev/hda5
grub> quit

Thanks,
Mark



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