[Gllug] Acer Aspire notebook with grub on MBR

[Mark Sayer]

On 16/02/07, - Tethys <tethys at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/16/07, Mark Sayer <goltor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> But being the linux enthusiast that I am, I would much much much rather
> use
> >> grub.
> >>
> >> Is there anyone that has resolved this before or has any other
> suggestions?
>
> > Put grub on the first sector of the boot partition, rather than in the
> > MBR (which is where it should have been in the first place, IMHO).


 If I do this would marking the partition as active be sufficient? Or would
I still have to use boot.ini to chain load grub?

I know I could just try it but there is a blank cd purchase and getting off
my butt to get one involved :-)

Mark
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