Bug#488000: grub2: fails to boot dq35jo intel board

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:16:43PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:41:40PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:44:04PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > > > Does the same problem happen with GRUB 2?
> > > 
> > > good question, as it is important that the *first mbr* write gets it
> > > right [...]
> > 
> > They overwrite each other's MBR, so this should be no problem.
> 
> no not really if you see with xxd that there is a diff between
> grub that has written on top of lilo. not everything is cleared
> and thus the box boots.

This is normal.  MBR also contains the partition table and other oddities
(like the Windows NT signature thing).
 
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Robert Millan

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