Re: [Bug-grub] Re: address@hidden: Re: Bug#185770: grub: incompatible with Windows 2000 NTFS when installed on MBR]

[Jason Thomas]

basically he says that something is screwing with the bootsector in the
location that stage 1.5 resides.


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:54:58AM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> At Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:55:38 +1100,
> Jason Thomas wrote:
> > okuji, can you explain to me what the stage 1.5 bit is, and why this
> > user can just delete it and grub still works.
> 
> I don't see what is your question exactly.
> 
> Stage 1.5 is optional. It's not a necessity. So when you invoke
> "setup" and GRUB cannot find Stage 1.5, GRUB is installed without
> Stage 1.5. In this case, Stage 1 directly loads Stage 2.
> 
> Okuji
> 
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