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Re: GRUB and that "other" OS...
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: GRUB and that "other" OS... |
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Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:51:19 +0900 |
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At Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:16:47 +0200,
Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> This sounds bad. Grub normally doesn't overwrite the first part
> (BPB) of the bootsector, which contains information necessary to
> access the drive. Only the boot code is overwritten.
That's true for FAT12 and FAT16, but not for FAT32. They changed the
format and (more importantly) the size of BPB.
Okuji