This setup has also worked for me for many years with both LILO and grub-legacy.
Does the filesystem (or even block device?) typically reserve the first "track" of any partition specifically for this purpose? That's certainly the way it works when installing grub to the MBR; it uses the space reserved before the first partition on the disk, which seems just as dicey in the presence of non-standard partitioning... -- grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partition instead of the MBR. This is a BAD idea. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445416 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
