At Wed, 21 May 2008 11:42:37 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: >> On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:53:28 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> > > If you don't, the stage1 in your MBR may not work with the stage1.5 >> > > and stage2 in /boot. This happened with a recent GRUB update. >> > >> > Not to me. >> >> Aha, the old "works for me" defence :) > > No, it's the "couldn't happen to me because my /boot is mounted ro" defense. > > BTW: One doesn't really need to keep grub installed after writing the MBR. > Just unmerge it and your /boot and/or MBR are save. This discussion is interesting and may well prove helpful. But, unless I missed it, I didn't see an answer to my question, namely Am I correct in believing that seeing `GRUB' within the first 512 bytes of /dev/sda (I have a one-hard-disk laptop) confirms my memory that I did install grub in the mbr (as opposed to the boot block of the active partition). thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
