Fedora tested in c't: grub missing feature

[Jeff Spaleta]

2009/2/4 Thomas Bendler <ml at bendler-net.de>:
> This is not necessary. It is necessary to add an entry for those
> distributions to GRUB during installation. If they are identified by a
> correct name or by unkown distribution is completly unimportant. If someone
> on the list has an installation of this distribution he might contribute the
> relevant information.


What piece of metadata defines a distribution..even an unnamed distribution?
If i have 15 partitions, only the ntfs partition has a boot label, how
does the installer determine which of the other 4 partitions are the
/boot or / of a linux distribution?

-jef