okuji, can you explain to me what the stage 1.5 bit is, and why this
user can just delete it and grub still works.

Thanks.

----- Forwarded message from Raj Manandhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----

> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:28:44 -0600
> From: Raj Manandhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jason Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: bug-grub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Bug#185770: grub: incompatible with Windows 2000 NTFS when installed on 
> MBR
> 
> Jason Thomas writes in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Friday 2003-March-28 08:35:03): 
>  > grub-install does not do what you claim, as far as I know.
>  > 
>  > It does the same thing that you are suggesting to do as a work around.
> 
> The grub-install script first copies in the Stage 1.5 files from
> /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ to /boot/grub, so when it calls grub, grub will
> install the Stage 1.5. The user could comment those lines of the
> script out. Or hmm, I suppose it would work to delete the Stage 1.5
> files from /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ and use the unmodified script...
> maybe that's what the original suggestion meant.
> 
> Anyway, the Debian package should have some documentation of this, or
> default to not use Stage 1.5.
> 
> Raj

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