installation issue 1

[Patrick Dupre]

Quoting sam, 02 mar 2013 Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>:

>
>
> Am 02.03.2013 23:22, schrieb Joe Zeff:
>> On 03/02/2013 01:57 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>> fdisk -l /dev/sda
>>> /dev/sda1            4096     6008309     3002107   82  Linux swap /
>>> Solaris
>>> gives enough room for the MBR, but
>>>
>>> fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>>> /dev/sdb1              63    24981074    12490506    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>>> probably does not give me enough room to fit properly a MBR
>>
>> I don't think so.  
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record#Disk_partitioning  
>> tells us that the MBR is at the
>> beginning of the physical drive, not in a partition.  If you'll  
>> scroll down, you'll also see that the MBR is still
>> only 512 bytes.  Here's what fdisk -l has to say about the first  
>> partition on my main hard drive:
>>
>> /dev/sdb1   *          63    83885759    41942848+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>>
>> I assure you, there's an MBR there because it's been there since  
>> before I installed (and switched to ) Linux.
>
> the problem is that Patrick doe snot understand the differnece between
> MBR and the different grub-stages which has nothing to do with
> partitions at all
>
Yes, that is right, I am sorry for the confusion.

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