grub (v1) in f18?

[John Reiser]

On 12/07/2012 11:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:

> ext[234] has two boot sectors for a total of 1024 bytes. XFS has none. Btrfs has 64KB.
> 
> It just seems like GRUB is a really familiar 4000 meter cargo train, compared to an unfamiliar hand truck, for the task of moving half-dozen boxes. Maybe I'm underestimating the size/weight of those boxes, but maintaining a grub installation, let alone troubleshooting it if it breaks for some reason, is a lot more complicated than some external source rewriting 1024 bytes to merely two sectors.

Some real BIOS+MBR demand that the last 2 bytes in a boot sector be 0xAA55.
So sometimes the first sector has only 510 usable bytes.  If the same code
reads the second sector, then that sector also might have only 510 usable bytes.
Those 2+2 bytes mattered to me when I wrote mine.

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