On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:07:32 +0200, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> The boot sector is really only part of one sector. That doesn't seem  
> like enough room to write code to find NTLDR or whatever the second step  
> of Linux boot code is (GRUB I assume, or LILO). Especially given the  
> wide range of partition types and RAID types a boot partition is allowed  
> to be on in Linux.
>
> How does it fit enough of the file system code into the boot mechanism  
> to find the files it needs? Is there something special, such that (say)  
> copying the file to a different place on the disk would keep things from  
> booting?


http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Bootstrap-tricks.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Images.html

I know from experience that moving stuff around on the boot partition can  
break GRUB.



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FE

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