[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello everyone! > i have a few questions about grub steps! > i know that when i start the pc: > 1-the cpu loads the bios > 2-bios controls that every component is functional and loads the stage 1 > that is stored in the MBR > 3-stage 1 loads the stage 2 that is stored somewhere in the hd > 4-stage 2 show to the user the Operating systems available and let the > user select the one he wants, then it loads Kernel, initrd and other > stuf related to the OS selected. > > these steps are right? > > i know that exists also a stage 1.5 placed after the bios step > > 2-bios loads stage 1.5 when the stage 1 stored in MBR is not available > (why not?), stage 1.5 is located exactly after the MBR and once loaded > it reads and load the stage 2 and so on... > > is it right?
This might help: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/ Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel