On Wednesday 11 April 2007 23:22, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Is it possible, yes if you can boot from a pen drive. > I would certainly not do that.. > first, on a hard drive, the boot sector contains a physical address of > the stage1 boot code. The boot process then loads stage1. Stage1 then > loads the specific stage1 for the file system (eg. e2fs_stage1_5) which > then loads /boot/grub/stage2. stage2 then reads the menu.lst (or > grub.conf) and presents the boot menu etc. Since pendrives are normally > FAT devices,
Do you know an example where fdisk plus mke2fs can't change that? fwiw I have a system whose BIOS has decided not to boot directly from hda, Couldn't figure why, but booting grub on CD is fine, and this works: root (hd0) chainloader +1 boot There is, of course, no reason /boot can't (with a little work) be on a CD. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
