Grub clarification

[Daniel B. Thurman]

>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Aaron Konstam
>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:38 PM
>To: For users of Fedora
>Subject: Re: Grub clarification
>
>
>On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 10:53 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> I am trying to install F8 onto my old system and having
>> trouble getting grub to find the drive. Here is the story.
>> 
[snip!]
>> I committed the partitions, but when it comes to the grub
>> configuration screen, it shows:
>> 
>> [o]	The GRUB boot loader will be installed on /dev/sda
>> 
>> Default     Label      Device
>> x             fedora     /dev/sda2
>Are you sure it did not offer your the option to put the boot loader in
>the MBR of /dev/sda?

I do not understand the question.  I am assuming the above is saying
that /dev/sda2 (which is "/") is the boot partition and if this is
a correct assumption, I left it as is.  I did try to redo the entire
setup and chosed the 'Advanced Options', and instead of the default
MBR @ /dev/sda - I choosed the radiobutton of /dev/sda1 - and I assume
this is the same thing?  It is confusing me as to what is the difference
between /dev/sda and /dev/sda1?


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