[Mageia-dev] Grub2 vs. Grub Legacy in M3

[Jose Jorge]

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^[