On Friday, November 09, 2012 05:30:24 PM Matthias Johnson wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> You may be correct but if the internal drive wasnt mountable how would it
> install anything to it?
> 
> Matthias

When Grub2 installs the boot sector portion of the boot loader into the MBR, 
it does that on the raw device (such as /dev/sda), not a filesystem.  When it 
installs the /rest/ of Grub2 -- the configuration, modules, etc -- that's done 
on a mounted filesystem.

-- 

  -- Chris

Chris Knadle
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