On Friday 09 February 2007 23:56, M Harris wrote: > On Friday 09 February 2007 22:13, Bob S wrote: > > One of the reasons I did not use Grub in the > > past was that I didn't understand how it worked. > > That is usually the main reason most new things are left untried... > the positive way to put it is that most of us use what we know and are > comfortable with... > > > When using Lilo it edited the MBR, correct? What is happening now > > when using Grub? What is in the MBR now? It doesn't change? Does the > > MBR now refer the boot process to Menu.1st? > > Phase #1 resides in the MBR, and contains just enough to load phase > #2. > > The cool thing is that grub knows how to read the file system(s) > before the system is booted... so it can find all of phase #2 on the > drive under /boot. The menu is built on-the-fly from the > /boot/grub/menu.lst file (located on the filesystem) and not written > to the MBR. (lilo configuration is contained on the mbr... so > lilo.conf is used when the mbr is written) Because the config for grub > is *not* written to the mbr it can be changed dynamically on bootup > (from the grub command menu). Also, changes to the menu configuration > (menu.lst) are read at bootup from /boot/grub/menu.lst so the mbr does > not have to be written when changes are made to the menu.lst file. > That answers my question. Thanks
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