Re: black screen / blinking cursor after grub-install

[Felix Miata]

On 2011/08/10 20:33 (GMT-0700) Jordan Uggla composed:

> Never install grub's boot sector to a partition, install it to the mbr
> instead (/dev/sda).

Never unless you care to be able to _easily_ get your Linux back after 
reinstalling Windows. IOW, it doesn't matter where Grub is installed if Linux 
is the only installed OS, but may matter a lot if you're multibooting.

If you don't put non-standard boot code (e.g. grub code) in the MBR, then you 
don't create a(n unnecessary) dependence on it that _will_ be broken by 
(re-)installing Windows. When Grub code is in a primary partition's boot 
sector instead of the MBR, then standard MBR code will launch it 
automatically simply from the presence of a 1 bit flag in the master 
partition table. Installing Windows will merely move that flag to a Windows 
partition's table entry if the MBR remains standard. Then after installing 
Windows it is sufficient, and quite simple, merely to move the flag instead 
of having to reinstall Grub when you want initialization to begin with Grub 
rather than NTLR (which can be configured to load Grub from its boot menu).
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