Stefan Monnier, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:58:14 -0400, a écrit : > >> > for much. But I am opposed to the removal of lilo. > >> > Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside > >> > of the master boot record (cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1). In other > >> > words they use cylinder 0, head 0, sector 2 and possibly subsequent > >> > sectors on cylinder 0 head 0. > >> Really? > > Yes. > > That sucks. > > >> and it sounds very odd: why would they do that when they can use > >> sectors on specified partitions? > > Because the question is "where?". > > Inside a file, like LILO does. > > > The lilo approach is "inside the filesystem", which can break. > > The grub approach is "right after MBR", which needs room there. > > But you can install Grub in a partition (rather than the MBR), so how > does it work then?
Grub1 could because it was small enough to fit in a well-known usable area in the ext2fs filesystem, but grub2 can not any more. > >> grub (legacy) can be installed in any partition. IIUC grub2 is limited to > >> being installed in the MBR. > > Due to the differing sizes, yes. > > Why does the size make any difference? Because the availabnle well-known areas have limited size. > At least for the Lilo-like technique, size is not an issue. Yes, but the file moving in the filesystem is an issue. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100527081222.gb3...@const.famille.thibault.fr
