[Gllug] Installing grub from a recovery CD

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sun Feb 27 21:06:43 UTC 2005


On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Mike Brodbelt murmured woefully:
> Installing LILO or Grub in the MBR replaces that program, but does not
> touch the partition table itself - Linux systems typically use the DOS
> partition table, unlike the BSDs.

To be pointlessly pedantic (me? never!) Linux systems typically use
whatever partitioning scheme the `native OS' likes, be that BSD
disklabels, DOS's format, Sun's disklabel scheme, etc, etc, ad
infinitum.

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What we need these days is a stable, fast, anti-aliased root beer
with dynamic shading. Not that you can let just anybody have root.
 --- John M. Ford
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