Le 29/01/2013 17:57, Maurice Batey a écrit :
Is there any technical reason why 'preferably near the start of the drive'? (Or perhaps simpy advisable in case of re-partitioning?) Does it e.g. have to be a primary partition?
No, but some BIOS cannot access the whole drive, and GRUB uses the BIOS to access stage1_5 files.
Last time I saw this on a 2006 laptop, I had to install Lilo to be able to boot 8^[
