Jim Henderson wrote:
>> If GRUB's boot sector actually loaded the boot sector off the active
>> partition, just like ever other boot sector written in the history of
>> hard drives on IBM computers and their clones, you could remotely switch
>> back and forth by using the same procedure that's worked since day 0 on
>> the IBM AT. Sadly, the Linux developers want to be the only OS that can
>> be booted, so they didn't bother to follow the standard. ;-)
> 
> I had thought GRUB on my system here was set up with the MBR, but I was 
> in fact mistaken - it's in the root partition instead.
> 
> Jim

Its actually a bit complicated. Windows will, if it can't find, or finds 
a damaged Boot.ini simply boot the active partition, otherwise it acts 
like Grub, and basically gives a menu, which can "default" to a specific 
partition. As I understand it, there is no direct way, short of hand 
editing, to tell it which one you want "active" as the default, so you 
**need** the "boot from the active partition" behavior. lol GRUB.. Well, 
either it or LILO, or maybe both, can be set to be either in the MBR or 
in the root. I think, either way, they will look at the root to try to 
find the menu options to display. Anyone try to delete the menu and see 
what happens? It might default to booting the "active" if it can't find 
the menu. So, the only real difference would be the redirect to the 
linux partition, in the case where its installed there, instead of in 
the MBR, presuming it does boot the active in such a case. Its kind of a 
toss up then if you think the "Windows" MBR or the Linux MBR behavior 
makes more sense.


-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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