Joe wrote: > >Grub lives in more than one place: most of it is in /boot/grub, but >there is a first-stage bootloader which calls this. To be honest, >I don't know for sure where that lives on a GPT disk, on the old >DOS-type partition it would live at the start of either the whole hard >drive or the start of a particular partition, chosen during >installation. I'm guessing it's the same for GPT partitioning.
It's ... complicated. :-) See https://wiki.debian.org/Grub2#UEFI_vs_BIOS_boot for documentation I've written comparing how GRUB works in BIOS mode vs. UEFI mode. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews