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Re: Is it possible to have grub2's boot.img as my MBR, but have it look


From: edgar . soldin
Subject: Re: Is it possible to have grub2's boot.img as my MBR, but have it look in a separate partition for core.img?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:41:25 +0100
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Any reason why you keep this of list?

Well, in case of boot code size does matter as boot records are limited in size. Or? .. ede

On 28.01.2010 18:36, Bean wrote:
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:15 AM,<address@hidden>  wrote:
So grubinst bootcode seems superior over grub2 bootcode regarding
partitions?
Hi,

Actually they both have advantages. Assembly is hard to write and
maintain, but much smaller, C is larger but portable. In cases where
size is not a matter, it's better to use C code.






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